Sentence increased for former garda sergeant who solicited child sex

The State has succeeded in increasing the sentence handed down to a former garda sergeant who incited a prostitute to find him children to have sex with.

Kieran O'Halloran (aged 50), who had been a member of the gardai for 22 years and who held a command post in Croatia while working for the United Nations, offered two prostitutes up to €10,000 to source the children and asked one to organise "three or four children in a hotel room" for him to rape.