Paedophile to live near girls’ school

PARENTS expressed concern yesterday at claims that a convicted paedophile is going to live near a school after he is released from jail.

Fr Ivan Payne, 58, is due to be released on October 26 after serving four-and-a-half years of a six-year sentence. Victims of Fr Payne expressed outrage at the news and said the priest was not supposed to be released early.

The Prison Service said Fr Payne was not being released early, but that he was being given standard remission of 25% off his sentence for good behaviour. It has been claimed that Fr Payne will live with a relative near St Wolstan's Community School in Celbridge, Co Kildare, for girls aged between 12 and 17, when he is released from the Curragh Prison.