Man gets 20 years for sexual abuse of his five children in a 'grotesque breach of parental trust'

The children were also locked in a room for days at a time without food and forced to drink urine

Survivors Jessica, Helen, Christopher, and Amanda Farrell outside Dublin Circuit Court on Friday. Picture: Collins Courts

A man who sexually abused five of his children, who were locked in a room for days at a time without food and forced to drink urine, has been jailed for 20 years.

Noel Farrell, aged 70, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to a number of sample counts of sexual abuse against his four daughters and one son at various addresses in Co. Sligo over two decades.