Prison not ready to take disabled paedophile

A wheelchair-user paedophile sentenced to five years for indecent assault was transported to Castlerea Prison — and then brought home again — because he could not be accommodated at the jail this week.

Martin Davoren, aged 61, from Corcullen, Moycullen, Co Galway, remained at home last night despite having been convicted at Galway Circuit Criminal Court last week of sexually abusing a girl.

Davoren is a wheelchair user who has been paralysed from the waist down since he was involved in a road traffic accident when he was 22.