Court halves prison sentence for serial sex offender

A serial sex offender once described by a judge as a "walking menace to every female" has had the six year prison sentence he received for sexually assaulting a young Japanese woman halved by the Court of Criminal appeal.

In February 2007, Derek Caffrey (aged 41), Edenmore Gardens, Raheny, received the new six-year term at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for sexually assaulting the woman on February 12, 2006 in the female toilet at Barry's Hotel, Great Denmark Street, near the city centre.