A Tipperary man who raped and sexually abused a girl for almost a decade from 1994 has been jailed for 12 years.
Gardaí interviewed Michael Smith, who's 53 and originally from Clonmel, about the abuse in 2004, after a video emerged of him raping her when she was eleven.
However he was released without charge and travelled to the UK where he committed further abuse against a teenage girl he had groomed over social media.
He was jailed in the UK in 2008 for this offence and for possession of nearly 20,000 images of child pornography.
Smith was extradited back to Ireland on his release last year and has been in custody since.
His Irish victim, Michelle Smith, who's now 29, waived her right to anonymity at the Central Criminal Court so her abuser could be identified.
