Fury over Christmas release for sex attacker

The aunt of a woman sexually assaulted by wealthy businessman Anthony Lyons has revealed her family’s anguish at the fact that he will be home for Christmas.

In August, Lyons, aged 51, of Griffith Avenue, Dublin, was ordered to pay €75,000 compensation to the woman as Judge Desmond Hogan suspended five-and-a-half years of the aviation broker’s six-year sentence.

“It is just horrendous,” said the victim’s aunt yesterday. “Everyone is gobsmacked. He has only three weeks to go and then his sentence is over, but our sentence continues and we live with it every day.”