Call to name and shame convicted sex offenders as killer returns home to Cork

THE director of the Cork Rape Crisis Centre has called on convicted sex offenders to be “named and shamed” in local communities, as fear grows in Cork about the return to the city of a known killer and attempted rapist.

Mary Crilly was speaking after it emerged Conor Downey, who was convicted of killing and chopping up his former girlfriend at their London flat in 1988, is back living in Douglas, Cork.

Only Suzanne Reddan’s limbs were ever recovered and her torso has never been found. Downey was jailed in 1993 for his girlfriend’s manslaughter and served just three years in prison before returning to Ireland from Britain.