Tim Allen gets suspended sentence

The chef husband of one of Ireland’s best-known TV cookery show presenters was today given a conditional nine-month suspended jail sentence for having at his home up to 1,000 computer images of children, some as young as five.

Tim Allen, 52, who is married to celebrity chef Darina Allen, of the Ballymaloe Cookery School, Co Cork, pleaded guilty to a charge connected with a nationwide garda investigation of child pornography.