Suspended sentence for male escort 'introducer'

A civil servant who was exposed on RTE’s 'Primetime' to be running a male escort service through a gay dating website has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Eugene Leach (aged 48) was contacted by journalists through the website Gaydar and acted as a "go-between" in finding male prostitutes. He took a cut of the fee charged by the men.