DPP decides not to appeal two-and-a-half-year Humphries sentence
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The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has decided not to appeal the leniency of a controversial two-and-a-half-year jail sentence for child sex offender Tom Humphries.
Mr Humphries, a former sports journalist at The Irish Times, was convicted by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of grooming and engaging in sexual acts with a teenage girl over three years.
The length of his sentence came under criticism from the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and senior Sinn Féin TD Mary Lou McDonald.
However, the sentence handed down by Judge Karen O’Connor was defended by judges and barristers and more recently by retired Supreme Court judge, Ms Justice Catherine McGuinness.
She said Judge O’Connor handled the case “very well” and “approached that sentence completely along the proper guidelines”.
The 28-day window for the DPP to lodge an appeal has now passed.
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