Group hits out as brothel boss avoids prison again

An organisation which campaigns against the trafficking of migrant women into prostitution has hit out at a suspended jail term handed down to a company executive who ran a sophisticated brothel network in Limerick.

Thomas Lyons, aged 57, from Newcastle West and with an address at the Warren, Malahide, Dublin, received a four-year suspended sentence at Limerick Circuit Court after he pleaded guilty to three counts of running brothels in Limerick.

A co-accused, Zelandia Silva, aged 46, from Brazil, who ran the business with Lyons, was given an 18-month suspended sentence.