'Sexual predator' football coach avoids jail for sexually assaulting young teenage boy in the 1970s

The assault happened on a club summer trip to County Kerry while two others were also sleeping in the same bed and other children were in the caravan, the court heard

The judge imposed a sentence on Joseph Thorpe (pictured) of 20 months imprisonment but suspended it in full for a period of 24 months and ordered that he remain under the supervision of the Probation Service for a period of 18 months. Photo Collins Court

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A football coach, who a judge described as “clearly a sexual predator”, has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.