A pensioner who was jailed for sexually abusing three of his granddaughters has launched an appeal against his convictions, arguing there was no evidence to justify the time gap between the offending and complaints made by the girls.
The man (76) who is from the southwest and who cannot be named in order to protect the identity of his victims was jailed for six years with the final two suspended by Judge Orla Crowe at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court in June, 2021.
He had pleaded not guilty to 13 sexual assaults of the girls who were aged between eight and 11-years-old but a unanimous jury found him guilty on all charges.
