June 2013
7ft tall Belfast police officer admits having indecent images of children
A GIANT ex-cop has pleaded guilty to child abuse images offences – just 48 hours after vigilantes smashed up his former home in a republican stronghold.
Seven foot tall ex-PSNI officer Ciaran O’Meara, now living in Belfast appeared in the dock of Downpatrick Crown Court last Tuesday to admit a series of charges of possessing indecent images of children.
Two days earlier, some angry locals in the north Belfast nationalist estate where the pervert ex-cop had been living have smashed up his former home.
A gang attacked a house on Stratheden Street in Belfast’s New Lodge area after learning that child abuse images fiend Ciaran O’Meara had been living there for more than a year.
The property is just yards away from a nursery school, a busy playground, and the home of a convicted Real IRA bomber.
O’Meara has admitted 11 counts of having indecent images of children.
The 7ft tall former police officer was snared after ex- colleagues in the PSNI’s internet crimes unit seized his computer.
They found dozens of sickening images of kids being abused on the hard-drive.
O’Meara – who resigned from the PSNI after the investigation began – was charged with collecting the disgusting haul.
Following his arrest he moved from his home in a quiet part of north Down to a rented house in the New Lodge – an area where dissident republicans are active.
The home of the Real IRA’s former Belfast boss and convicted bomber is just a few streets away from where the ex-cop had moved.
O’Meara’s cover was blown last month when he first appeared in Newtownards Magistrates’ ‘ Court charged with child indecent pictures offences.
He immediately moved from the house on Stratheden Street after neighbours read newspaper reports about his alleged crimes.
Last weekend a vigilante gang smashed up the vacant property painting “pervert scum” on the front walls.
One local man, who did not give his name, said: “I couldn’t believe it when I read in the paper that a child porn b*****d was living among us.
“The New Lodge is full of young families and it sickens me to think this fella was looking out the window at them.
“What’s worse is that the authorities allowed him to be put here even though they knew he was charged with child porn.”
O’Meara, who was freed on bail after his guilty pleas, will be sentenced in Downpatrick on September 6
