A Dublin paedophile has been released by Mr Justice Dermot Kinlan at the Central Criminal Court from the balance of his 10 years' sentence which was imposed in 1994.
Mr Justice Kinlan imposed strict residential and other conditions on the 42-year-old man who was due for unconditional release next January at the normal expiration of his sentence.
He was jailed on July 26th, 1994, after he pleaded guilty to 34 sample charges of sexual abuse.
The charges included three of rape, 22 of indecent assault and 12 of sexual assault on his daughter, his son and two daughters of a neighbouring couple on dates from 1985 to 1991.
Among the conditions are that he reside in a caravan at a designated address until such time as alternative accommodation is arranged and that he have no contact at all with a named family or with his own children, save as initiated and arranged by his wife.
He must inform the probation and welfare service of any change of address, or of the location of any employment he takes up, and he must meet the probation officer as directed as well as engage meaningfully in therapeutic treatment.
He must also enter into a bond to keep these conditions and to remain out of trouble for the next five years or he will have to serve the balance of his sentence as well as any new sentence that might be imposed.
Sgt John Hickey earlier told prosecuting counsel, Mr Desmond Zaiden BL, that gardai and the probation service had reservations about the caravan site which was in an isolated area. He said before the defendant left the court he needed to be told the precise location so that he could inform the local gardai.
Mr Peter Finlay SC, defending, said his client had no difficulty accepting all the conditions imposed.
He also noted that the probation officer had not expressed any reservations in her evidence about the location of the caravan.
Mr Finlay said his client's father had advanced him £600.
The defendant had been refused early release on at least four previous occasions since last year because of prosecution and probation service reservations.