A man lay unconscious and motionless on a Dublin street. CCTV recorded Brahim Maddi approaching him, sexually assaulting him, leaving and returning repeatedly. On the fourth occasion Maddi orally raped him.
A man collapsed on a city-centre street
The victim had been drinking with friends in May 2019. CCTV showed him sitting down, falling face first and remaining on the ground. He was heavily intoxicated and unable to protect himself.
Maddi, then aged 36, encountered the man in Dublin city centre. The sentencing report records that Maddi later told Gardaí the man had passed him in the street and that he followed him.
CCTV recorded the repeated assault
Maddi went to the victim, took €5 from his back pocket and rubbed his buttocks through his clothing. He lay on top of him and rubbed himself against him, then masturbated before leaving.
He returned several times. On the fourth occasion, he orally raped the man. The victim remained face down and motionless throughout.
Security staff raised the alarm
Security staff intervened and alerted Gardaí. Officers arrested Maddi near the scene. The victim was found face down, unresponsive but breathing, and was taken to hospital.
When the victim regained consciousness, his trousers were down and he was sore. Maddi admitted the sexual assault and said the man had been asleep throughout.
The harm continued after the attack
The victim told the court that he became suicidal in the days after the assault. He felt guilty about the effect on his family and said the crime had cheapened what he had achieved in his life.
The details make the central fact unavoidable: Maddi did not mistake a responsive person for a willing participant. The victim was visibly incapacitated, and Maddi admitted that he was asleep.
A seven-year headline reduced to four years
Maddi pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to sexual assault and oral rape. Judge Michael White set a seven-year headline sentence, finding that the victim was vulnerable and unable to fend for himself.
The judge reduced the sentence to four years to reflect Maddi’s admissions, guilty plea and remorse, which the court accepted as genuine. The court also heard that Maddi had schizophrenia and was himself vulnerable.
What the public record establishes about Maddi
The court report identifies Maddi as a homeless Algerian national. His defence said that he had left Algeria because of difficulties arising from his sexual orientation.
That is the extent of the located public migration record. It does not establish when or how he entered Ireland, whether he sought international protection, what permission he held, whether any removal process followed, his release date or his current location.
No complete prior-history record was located
The sentencing report does not state a prior-conviction count. Searches for a concluded appeal, later conviction or official custody or immigration outcome did not produce a reliable match.
A separate 2023 charge-stage headline used the same name, but the underlying report was not available through the permitted retrieval route and no final outcome or identity match was located. It is therefore excluded from this criminal history rather than presented as fact.
Timeline
- May 2019: The victim collapsed and remained unconscious on a Dublin city-centre street.
- May 2019: CCTV recorded Maddi sexually assaulting the victim, leaving and returning repeatedly before orally raping him.
- May 2019: Security staff raised the alarm, Gardaí arrested Maddi nearby and the victim was taken to hospital.
- Before sentence: Maddi pleaded guilty to sexual assault and oral rape.
- 16 December 2019: The Central Criminal Court imposed a four-year prison sentence after a seven-year headline was reduced for mitigation.
Cost benchmark
The Irish Prison Service reported an average annual cost of €99,072 for an available staffed prison space in 2024. Applying that fixed archive benchmark to the four-year sentence gives €396,288.
This is a sentence-length comparison, not an audited bill for Maddi and not a claim that he served four full years. It excludes Garda investigation, prosecution, court staff, criminal legal aid, hospital care, victim services and any post-release supervision.
Sources
- The Irish Times, 16 December 2019: nationality, offence circumstances, CCTV evidence, victim impact, admissions, guilty pleas, mitigation and sentence.
- Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2024: official staffed-prison-space benchmark.