Freed rapist forced to deal with probation service

FREED rapist Larry Murphy has been forced to engage with the probation service after conceding he cannot cope on his own.

Justice Minister Dermot Ahern sped up the process of bringing the country’s most notorious sex offender in from the cold after he directed senior probation officers to re-offer the services which he had snubbed while in prison.

The 45-year-old Co Wicklow man had refused to take part in the voluntary sex offenders programme which uses therapy and counselling in jail to help sex offenders bring their behaviour under control.