We don’t feel justice was done, says victim

PARENTS of children preyed upon by paedophile James Lombard reacted angrily yesterday when he was jailed for just five years despite sexually assaulting 16 youngsters.

“We were all expecting it would go to double digits given the number of children he assaulted. We are very disappointed to put it mildly. He put us through so much. He’ll be out in four years and we’ll have to live with the consequences of what he did forever,” the father of one victim said.

His son, now aged 20, assaulted in the toilets of Burger King on St Patrick Street in 1994, said he was “distraught, disgusted” with the sentence. “We thought he’d get at least 10 years. We don’t feel justice was done.”