A former civil servant caught with over 7,000 images and 21 videos of child pornography has avoided jail.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has sold a house and 150 acres of land belonging to the man said to have brought foot-and-mouth disease to Ireland two years ago when he smuggled infected sheep into the country.

JOHN WALSH, the man who brought foot-and-mouth disease to Ireland, is to have his house compulsorily sold by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) and is also facing a new set of smuggling charges in Scotland.