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Louis Walsh accuser jailed
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 26 January 2012
The man who falsely accused Louis Walsh of sexual assault last June has been jailed for six months in relation to the untrue allegations he made against the ‘X-Factor’ star.
Leonard Watters told the police he was groped by Walsh in the toilets at a Dublin nightclub. But less than a week later he admitted he had lied about the incident, and was himself promptly arrested for wasting police time. He faced those charges in court this week, with District Court Judge Dermot Dempsey saying: “The public must be protected from this type of untrue, unfounded allegations. He put the injured party through a lot of pain and anguish”.
Since the allegations were made, Walsh has said that the ordeal of being accused of such a crime had a major impact on his life, and has “affected his personality forever”.
