NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
A priest who is serving a ten-year jail sentence for sex crimes against three victims has been sentenced to two years for abusing a boy.
In June, James Martin Donaghy, 55, originally from Lady Wallace Drive, Lisburn, admitted four charges of indecently assaulting the boy and one of common assault.
The offences happened between January and May 1989.
However, Donaghy will not serve any extra time in prison.
At Belfast Crown Court on Friday, Judge Kinney told Donaghy that had these current offences been dealt with when he was originally sentenced, they would have been taken into consideration.
In the circumstances, given the “principle of totality”, he said his sentence would run concurrently with the previous term.
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