Daughter saved dad who had abused her

A woman who was sexually abused as a child by her own father saved him from death when she found him trying to take his own life.

Patrick McCarthy, aged 66, from Corbally North, Ballincurrig, Co Cork, was jailed for a total of three years by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin at Cork Circuit Criminal Court for sexually assaulting his two daughters and another girl.