A 66-year-old church elder convicted of indecently assaulting a child will not be sent to jail because his obesity means his health is “precarious”. John William McConaghy, from Urbal Road, Dervock in County Antrim, was found guilty of indecent assault. The judge at Antrim Crown Court said McConaghy would normally be sent to prison, but he was suspending the two and a half-year jail term. He said McConaghy’s circumstances were “wholly exceptional.”
Judge David Smyth said McConaghy’s lack of mobility and ulcerated legs, together with the need for frequent dressings and the arrangements that would be needed to accommodate him in jail amounted to “wholly exception circumstances”. During a 10-day trial in October McConaghy’s victim, who is now 44, said she was indecently assaulted from the age of around 10 until she was 18.
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