The Supreme Court today ordered the re-arrest of a 41-year-old paedophile who had been released from jail after his detention for raping a 12-year-old girl was deemed unlawful.

A TRULY appalling vista is unfolding following yesterday’s High Court decision to allow a 41-year-old man, convicted of the statutory rape of a 12-year-old girl, to walk free from prison even though he knew her age and plied her with drink before having sex with her.

LAWYERS for the only man jailed for the killing of student Brian Murphy outside Club Anabel at Dublin’s Burlington Hotel in August 2000 submitted yesterday that some of the statements of his co-accused were highly prejudicial to him and went well beyond the prosecution’s case against him.