NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News

A former priest who sexually abused more than a dozen boys over a 16-year period has secured a reduced jail sentence for one set of assaults.

The Court of Appeal ruled that Daniel Curran’s jail term for attacks on two victims should be cut from four to three years.

Based on the 62-year-old’s guilty pleas, remorse, and the consequences of multiple sentencing exercises, the penalty imposed was held to be excessive.

Curran, of Bryansford Road, Newcastle, was jailed at Downpatrick Crown Court in February 2012 on five counts of indecent assault.