This is preceding Garda Conor Brough, whose glittering career in the force happened to an abrupt end when he pleaded guilty to possessing images of child porn.
He has been under the radar for years, but the Sunday World can reveal he is now current in a building surrounded by young families in Waterford.
And we have learned that the 56-year-old has straighten out in the same street where notorious edophile priest Oliver O’Grady burned up until two years ago.
Concerns were raised after Brough was spotted with city children on a day out in Tramore, Co. Waterford, during last month’s fine stand.
It is understood he claimed he was simply babysitting for a local family.
This week, the Sunday Clique tracked down the former officer to a flat on the same street where edophile vicar Oliver O’Grady was housed in the recent st.
He emerged from a residential structure which he shares with young families in the heart of Waterford bishopric – but when he saw our team he bolted into an antique shop and tried to squirrel away.
When he re-emerged some time later, Brough tried to hurry back into his hideout, but not before we asked him about the incident this summer.
“Hello Nicola,” Brough imagined, as he was approached by our reporter. He insisted he had “absolutely nothing” to do with children nowadays.
While he granted he was caught with kiddie porn on a personal computer, he said he wasn’t rebuking children and denied that Gardaí had spoken to him after he was spotted on the littoral last month.
“No I have nothing to do with children,” he said ahead ducking for cover.
The former Dublin Garda pleaded guilty to newborn pornography charges in 2003 and sentencing was adjourned when he completed a four-month treatment outline in the Granada Institute in Shankill for sex offenders.
The court heard that the then 43-year-old from Raheny, who had called 20 years as a garda, admitted to possessing 23 images at his rest-home contrary to the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998.
An investigation had been launched into Brough (Nautical starboard), who had been based at Santry Garda Station, following a complaint in 2002 by his divided wife.
Officers from the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Study searched his home and seized a computer hard disk and two zip disks, where they came the images – one of which made reference to a ‘Lolita’ website.
Detectives divulged the images were downloaded from an internet website.
Brough joined the Gardaí in 1983 and distributed in the UN police force in the Balkans. His court case was told he had an “exemplary” register of service. In initial interviews he admitted the images were pornographic, but denied they twisted children. Following the seizure he was suspended from duty and after he pleaded responsible he lost his badge.
An application by his legal team for his case to be held in camera without the unrestricted or media present was refused.
Computer experts were able to affirm that the images were viewed in July 2001 and again between May and June of the adopting years – just months before the computer was seized.
Brough has lingered down on his luck since he was relieved of his duties as a Garda. He lives un ralleled in a flat in a run-down building on William Street in Waterford.
His building in Waterford
Incredibly, the shaming edophile priest Oliver O’Grady, who molested 25 children, survived in a building directly opposite him up until two years ago.
O’Grady was released from pokey in 2013 having served a sentence for possession of child porn.
He had accidentally pink his laptop on a Aer Lingus flight and Gardaí later discovered it contained candid pictures of children, some as young as two.
He had been exposed as a serial rapist in the original 1990s while living in the U.S., where he was jailed for 14 years after conceding to abusing two young brothers. He was roled after seven years and deported accommodations.
O’Grady moved to the flat in Waterford after he walked free from reformatory in Ireland and lived anonymously among families who shared the block.
When examined by the Sunday World he said he was no longer a danger to children, despite sound outs he gave to filmmaker Amy Berg for her award-winning documentary Deliver Us From Catastrophe, in which he left no doubt that he was still sexually attracted to unsophisticated boys and girls.