Former top boxing coach jailed for abuse of boys

A former top amateur boxing coach and convicted child abuser has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for buggery and sexually assaulting five teenage boys over a 13-year period.

Frank Mulligan (aged 63) of Mulladuff, Smithboro, Co. Monaghan, made some of his victims pray before and after the sex attacks, which he claimed was “God’s will”.