Sex trial ordeal: victims call for protection

TWO women abused by notorious paedophile and pirate radio station boss, Eamonn Cooke, pleaded last night for greater protection for victims facing the nightmare of court trials.

Cooke, who went by the broadcast name of ‘Captain Cooke’ and was known by local children as the ‘Cookie Monster’, received a 10-year jail sentence for a total of 42 indecent assaults on young girls in the 1970s.

It was the second trial for the 70-year-old father of 11 after he successfully appealed a 2002 conviction for multiple offences against four girls.