The suspended sentence imposed on convicted sex offender Kilrush man Thomas Waters is set to be appealed by the Director of Public Prosecutions today.
The 64 year old of Moore Street in the West Clare town was handed down a suspended four year jail term last year after pleading guilty to charges of a sexual nature between 1977 and 1982.
The former judo instructor pleaded guilty to a total of 12 charges including nine counts of indecent assault in releation to one male and one charge each of indecently assaulting two young brothers in Ennis – They were all aged around 12 at the time.
At the sentencing hearing last June retired consultant psychiatrist Dr Patrick O Beirne said a custodial sentence would be disproprotionate and unhelpful while one of the victims told the court that he forgave the 64 year old for what he did to him thirty years earlier . He later wrote a letter to the DPP urging him to appeal the sentence handed down.
