Pensioner rapist freed from jail

Eamon Foley was released after serving less than half his sentence

A County Tyrone man who raped a 91-year-old woman has been released from jail.

Eamon Foley had been due to leave prison earlier this month, but was kept in longer because he refused to provide an approved address to the court.

Foley, 47, raped Mary-Anne McLaughlin at her home in Castlederg in 1999. She died several weeks later.

Her niece, Jean McCaffrey, said he should not have been released and said the system was at fault.

He was sentenced to 16 years, but with Northern Ireland's 50% remission sentencing policy he was released in eight.

"Eamon Foley is a rapist who was convicted of a dreadful crime who is not rehabilitated and took no help at all while he was in jail.

"It's really the system that's at fault, that has him out," she said.