The evil paedophile also served time for separately abusing a seven-year-old boy
A Galway man found guilty of sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy in the 1980s is back on the streets after serving time in prison for his crimes.
Anthony Spellman, who had lived in the UK before his conviction, is expected to have returned to the UK after he was freed from Midlands Prison just before Christmas.
Spellman was sentenced to four years in prison for sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy in the 1980s.
Spellman was found guilty in Galway Circuit Court in 2020 of 20 counts of indecent assault for sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy between June 1984 and January 1986.
During the trial for those offences, the jury had not been informed that at that time he was convicted and serving prison time for abusing a seven-year-old boy.
It also emerged in court hearings that Anthony Spellman had received a Risk of Sexual Harm Order from South Cheshire Magistrates Court for sending explicit messages to a 15-year-old boy that expired in 2014.
The judge sentenced Spellman to a total of 16 months on counts one to 18, and another 16 months on each of counts 19 and 20.
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