Elderly on-the-run abuser jailed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/northern_ireland/6713407.stm Version 0 of 1. A 78-year-old paedophile who was the subject of a manhunt after going on the run has been jailed for six years. Robert Wallace - described as a serious risk to vulnerable women and children - left approved accommodation in February and was re-captured in Garvagh. It was the second time in seven months he had absconded after his release from jail for abusing two young girls. A Belfast Crown Court judge revoked his previous three year probation term and replaced it with six years in jail. He also imposed a two-month consecutive term for breaching the sex offenders register. The judge made a sexual offences prevention order which bans Wallace from ever being in the unsupervised company of a child or vulnerable adult. He is now Northern Ireland's oldest prisoner. |