Sick dad who sexually abused daughter and said her mother would be 'jealous'
Gordon McKenna has been jailed after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting his daughter at various locations including the family home in Dublin, on mountain biking trips and at the cinema
Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin.(Image: Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
A man who sexually abused his daughter throughout her childhood, convincing her they shared "a special love" that would make her mother jailed (jealous?), has received a seven-year prison sentence.
Gordon McKenna, 79, previously of Marian Grove, Old Moore Street, Mountmellick, Laois, and currently residing in Germany, admitted to indecently assaulting his daughter at multiple locations including their family home in Tallaght, Dublin, during mountain biking trips and at the cinema, between 1977 and 1983. He has no prior criminal record.
McKenna had initially contested the charges but entered a guilty plea as his trial was set to begin at the Central Criminal Court. Prosecutor Seoirse Ó Dúnlaing SC informed Justice Melanie Greally that Jane Murray, 55, chose to waive her anonymity rights to permit her father's identification in media coverage of the case.
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She participated in the proceedings remotely through an audio connection.
The court was informed that Murray's mother grew suspicious McKenna was engaging in an extramarital affair when Murray reached 13 years of age. At that moment, the teenager revealed to her mother that she was "the other woman," reports the Irish Mirror.
McKenna departed from the family home and the abuse stopped.
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