AN Irish priest facing multiple charges of child sex abuse may be back in Ireland as early as next week after he was deported from Brazil to England on St Stephen’s Day.

Police in Brazil killed 33 suspected gang members and searched motorists at roadblocks in a bid to quell a wave of attacks on Sao Paulo’s police stations, courts and buses that had plunged South America’s largest city into fear.

A wave of attacks on police by a notorious gang has killed at least 30 people - including 23 officers – in the bloodiest assault of its kind in the history of Brazil’s largest state, authorities said.