North Cork on high alert as double rapist is freed

North Cork is on high alert after a repeat rapist, who is widely expected to strike again, returned to his family after serving 11 years of a 17-year sentence for rape and sexual assault.

Patrick ‘Lo Lo’ O’Driscoll arrived in Fermoy at about lunchtime yesterday, having travelled in a prison van from the Midlands Prison. The 47-year-old met briefly with local gardaí.

Later in the afternoon, he went to the family home, Coome encampment, about two miles west of the village of Glenville.