Gardaí visit released rapist three times a day

Gardaí are openly visiting a convicted double-rapist up to three times a day since his recent release from prison and have also put him under covert surveillance.

Patrick “Lo Lo” O’Driscoll was released from the Midlands Prison on July 9 after serving 11 years of a 17-year sentence for rape and sexual assault.

O’Driscoll, a Traveller, was sentenced in 2003 for a brutal attack on a woman in Fermoy, Co Cork.