EX-CELTIC KITMAN IN JAIL RAPE QUIZ
A CONVICTED paedophile has been arrested on suspicion of raping an inmate inside Maghaberry Prison.
Former Celtic kit man Jim Mccafferty, 72, who was caged in August, said the act was consensual and claimed the alleged victim offered him £40 [€45] for sex.
It is claimed the alleged assault took place in the sexual offenders’ wing of the Co Antrim prison on October 9.
Police arrived at Maghaberry and arrested Mccafferty last Tuesday. The source added: “He was back in jail a short time afterwards but has since gone again.”
A spokesman for the Northern Ireland Prison Service said: “This is now a police matter and it would be inappropriate for NI Prison Service to comment any further.”
A PSNI spokesperson said: “A 72-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of rape on October 9 in Belfast. He was interviewed, and a file has now been sent to the Public Prosecution Service for consideration.”
The pervert’s solicitor Stephen Tumelty confirmed his client had been arrested and questioned. The paedophile, who was also a kit man for Scottish side Hibernian, confessed to abusing a boy to a Mirror reporter and photographer.
In June a prosecution lawyer said Mccafferty, who had been living at Raby Street, South Belfast, should be sentenced for up to six years for abusing a boy in “a calculated fashion time after time”. He admitted eight counts of abuse on the child who was aged between 14 and 16.
He had spent 18 months on remand and was jailed for three years and nine months in August. The court heard he had confessed to sexually assaulting the teenager in Belfast and other children in Scotland.
YESTERDAY
Alleged offence happened in Maghaberry
This is now a police matter & it would not be appropriate to comment
NI PRISON SERVICE SPOKESMAN