'Goodbye Cian', woman says as her brother is jailed for sexually abusing her when she was seven

'There was a significant degree of violence which made the assaults all the more terrifying for a small child in the family home,' the judge said.

His sister Aoife Farrelly, who waived her anonymity so he can be named, said her brother had 'literally and metaphorically' held her in a chokehold for so long but no longer would. Picture: Collins Courts

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A woman who was sexually abused by her older brother when she was a child has said today is the start of the rest of her life after he was jailed for three years.