Rapist flees two ‘hitmen’ at family’s halting site

A man convicted of two rapes fled through the fields after his brother saw two "hitmen" on a motorcycle gunning for him.

Gardaí are searching for the men after they drove up to a halting site in a remote part of Co Cork yesterday looking for Patrick ‘Lo Lo’ O’Driscoll, who is from the Traveller community.

He was at his family’s halting site in Coombe, Glenville shortly before 2pm yesterday when his brother spotted a motorcycle approaching and claimed one of the men on it was armed with a handgun. O’Driscoll, who had also seen them approaching, fled through nearby fields from the halting site, which is 4km west of Glenville, where he lives with his elderly mother.