‘Hopefully, we will finally get that evil man out of our lives’

They will live with the pain of what Joseph Carrick put them through for the rest of their lives, but yesterday Jacqueline O’Toole and Geraldine Nolan got justice.

Now in the record books and in legal history, they can finally turn their backs on the monster who stole their childhood.

Two separate juries found Carrick, aged 72, from Carysfort Woods, Blackrock, Co Dublin, had sexually assaulted and raped the women during the early 1970s, starting when they were 12 years of age. Carrick would take them, separately, to his office at Eden Quay, where he would sexually assault and rape them.