Humphries jailed for grooming and sexually abusing teenage girl

Former sports journalist Tom Humphries has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for grooming and sexually abusing a teenage girl.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard Humphries’ daughter discovered texts of a sexual nature between him and the girl on an old mobile phone she had asked him to donate to charity.

Forensic analysis showed he exchanged more than 16,000 text messages with the girl over a three-month period until March 2011.