Liam Adams sentenced to 16 years in prison

Liam Adams, who was convicted on ten counts of sexually abusing his daughter, Áine Dahlstrom, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Adams, 58, of Bernagh Drive in west Belfast was found guilty by a jury on 1 October after a three-week trial.

The offences, including three of rape and three of gross indecency, were carried out between March 1977 and 1983 when Ms Dahlstrom was between four and nine years old.

He had denied all the charges throughout the trial.

An earlier trial collapsed last April for legal reasons.

Adams is a brother of Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams.

Judge Corinne Philpott QC handed down the sentence, which included a further two years on probation, at Belfast Crown Court.

As Ms Dahlstrom watched from the public gallery, Judge Philpott told the court that Adams had committed the "greatest breach of trust imaginable".

She said: "The evidence has established in the view of this court that he used this child for his own sexual gratification, whenever he had the opportunity when her mother was not present in the house."

Ms Dahlstrom, 40, waived her right to anonymity. She and her mother Sally gave evidence for the prosecution during the trial.

Adams has two daughters from a second marriage and they gave evidence for the defence.

The former youth worker will also be placed on the sex offenders register and will be barred from working with children.

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