Father found guilty of 87 abuse charges

Central Criminal Court
Jury took 13 hours to reach its verdict

Friday August 20th 2010




A 73-year-old man has been found guilty on nine further charges of sexual assault against three of his children.


It took the jury 13 hours to reach its verdict at the Central Criminal Court.


The man had pleaded not guilty to all counts of sexually assaulting and raping his two daughters, between the ages of five and 11 between 1997 and 2002.


He also denied sexually assaulting his son from the age of three to six at various locations on the same dates.


The Dublin father was originally facing 113 charges.


Justice George Birmingham directed that the jury find him not guilty on 17 charges.


Yesterday he was convicted on 78 charges, and found not guilty on two charges.


Today he was found guilty of nine charges, and the jury failed to reach agreement on seven further charges.


He will be sentenced on 4 October.


The trial lasted for seven weeks.


The Ba****d should be shot !!!

Have been following this on the news Noel, "sickening", as you say he should be taken out and shot would save the tax payers on his trial and now keeping him locked up

Could not agree wit you more Noely.B*****D

For those who don't know what these things are: they are castration tools. This fellow deserves the use of these tools. Sick b*****d.

skin him alive

sick perverted people