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70-year-old man convicted of 20 offences against girls By George Welch AN elderly Irish paedophile is ‘where he belongs’ after being jailed for historic sex offences involving girls aged just four and seven. Thomas Nash, 70, from Fedamore, County Limerick, Republic of Ireland, abused the girls at locations in Bicester and Hampshire over a four-year period between 1997 and 2001. He appeared at Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday last week, where he received a sentence of 10 years and nine months in prison for 20 charges of sexual offences against children. A European Arrest Warrant was issued for Nash when he failed to turn up for trial in May last year after he was charged at St Aldates Police Station in Oxford in May 2015. He was then dragged back to the UK, where he pleaded guilty to the offences. Nash was convicted on January 12 of 16 charges of indecent assault on a girl under the age of 14 years and four charges of gross indecency with a girl under the age of 16. Investigating officer Detective Constable Kelly Gilbert, from the Child
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