VILE PREDATOR JAILED

74-year-old is handed five years for sexual assaulting three girls

- BY CHRIS MCNULTY

A VILE predator and convicted rapist who sexually assaulted three young girls has been jailed.

Louis Feeney, who has 85 convictions for offences include rape and sexually assault, was handed a five-year prison sentence at Letterkenny Circuit Court.

The 74-year-old, with an address at Killowen Street, Coleraine, Co Derry, subjected the three girls to incidents that caused “very significant harm”.

Feeney, who was extradited from Northern Ireland in March, is also facing sentence later this year over a large consignment of drugs 20 years ago.

A car in which Feeney was the lone occupant was intercepted and gardai located 1,840 grams of cocaine.