Paedophile Lombard jailed for further seven years

A predatory paedophile who sexually assaulted a ten-year-old girl in Cork city after he absconded from a sex abuse trial is facing 12 years in prison after he was convicted by a jury today.

James Lombard was subject of a major manhunt when he assaulted the young girl as she was on her way home from mass last February. Her mother had asked her to pop up to the local shop to pick up the previous night’s lottery numbers.