Personal trainer jailed for sexual assault and secret filming of other women during massages [Video]

A GYM OWNER has been jailed for two years and four months after he sexually assaulted a woman seeking treatment for chronic back problems and for secretly filming dozens of other vulnerable women topless as he gave them massages.

Personal trainer Shane Flynn, 35, who owned and ran the popular NGS Gym & Rehabilitation Clinic in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, and had 34,000 followers on Instagram, begged not to be imprisoned.

Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court heard that 18 hours of video footage on Flynn’s laptop showed him making suggestive remarks to females aged 18 to their mid-50s and massaging their breasts.

Gardaí could not identify the women in the videos, which did not feature any non-consensual behaviour. Judge Munro noted that they were not shared or distributed and were mostly recovered from his laptop recycle bin file and that Flynn ceased this activity several months before his arrest for the sexual …