The man who raped and murdered Louth native Jill Meagher in Australia in 2012 has been found guilty of three more rapes also carried out while he was on parole for a string of other crimes.

A scathing review of a parole system in Australia has criticised a decision to set a “recidivist serious, violent, sexual offender” loose months before he killed Irishwoman Jill Meagher.