Solicitor of sex offender tells judge of client's distress at sharing cell with two smokers

A convicted sex offender awaiting sentence for a Christmas Day sex assault on his daughter has complained of the incessant smoking of the two other prisoners with whom he was sharing a cell.

The 51-year-old man was convicted in May of sexually assaulting his 19-year-old daughter at the family home in County Cork on Christmas Day 2017.