Rape Crisis Network criticise council's vote of condolence following death of former lord mayor

Rape Crisis Network Ireland has criticised Cork City Council after it passed a vote of condolence following the death of a former lord mayor who was convicted of sexual assault.

John Murray, who was a city councillor for the Labour Party and served as lord mayor in 1993, was found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenager in 1996 after a trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court in 2013. He was jailed for one year, but released after nine months.

Murray died on Saturday, and at Monday night’s meeting of the City Council, Fianna Fáil councillor Sean Martin proposed a vote of condolence to the former lord mayor’s family.