By Anthony Bond UPDATED: 05:08 EST, 26 January 2012 Guilty: 'Tragic figure' Leonard Watters, pictured at an earlier hearing, apologised to Louis Walsh for the false claims An unemployed dance teacher has been sentenced to six months in jail for falsely accusing X Factor judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub. Leonard Watters pleaded guilty to making two false reports to Irish police that the pop music mogul sexually assaulted him in Dublin nightspot Krystle last April. The 24-year-old father-of-two from Navan, Co Meath, who was described in court as a Walter Mitty-type character, had apologised publicly to Mr Walsh at the city’s District Court.
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Leonard Watters falsely claimed X Factor judge sexually assaulted him in Dublin nightspot
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Jobless dancer Watters described as 'tragic figure'
'He continued to claim he was sexually assaulted in the toilets but that @placeholder did not do it,' the Detective added.