Offender admits to further child sex assaults

Serial sex offender James Lombard confessed today to sexually assaulting another seven boys and two girls as it emerged a consultation with a prison psychiatrist broke down because the accused was too upset to speak.

Lombard was in the headlines earlier this year when he was unlawfully at large for three weeks, having failed to show up for the end of his trial where he was convicted of sexually assaulting seven boys, a number of them in the toilets of fast food outlets in Cork city.