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Joseph McCabe PSNI

Missing sex offender back in custody after handing himself in

Joseph McCabe had been missing since early April after he breached the conditions that had been attached to his release on licence.

THE PSNI HAVE confirmed that registered sex offender Joseph McCabe, 29, is back in custody.

McCabe had been missing since early April after breaching the conditions that had been attached to his release on licence.

Police said that McCabe had handed himself into a local police station earlier this morning.

He was arrested and is currently helping police with their inquiries.

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    Mute Declan Hickey
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    May 7th 2013, 6:11 PM

    Somebody scared him more that the PSNI.

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    Mute Miss coffee
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    May 7th 2013, 9:34 PM

    The locals

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    Mute Dar Ryl
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    May 7th 2013, 5:34 PM

    Sounds like he woke up with a horses head in his bed this morning

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    Mute Micheál O'Ríagáin
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    May 7th 2013, 6:21 PM

    He must have had the Bank Holiday dose of the fear like many of us today

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    Mute Jonathan Kerr
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    May 7th 2013, 8:29 PM

    He was in donegal but when pictures of him started going around the county a vigilante group started looking for him he shat himself and went and handed himself in for his own safety…

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    May 7th 2013, 5:51 PM

    You know they say ‘Don’t judge a book by the cover’ but ……………

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    May 7th 2013, 6:13 PM

    He looks like a Frankenstein monster,well he is a monster

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    May 7th 2013, 8:25 PM

    Why oh why are these people released? I bet if he had not payed his bloody road tax he’d finish his sentence.

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    Mute Grace Murphy
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    May 7th 2013, 6:52 PM

    Hope he gets on real well in prison. Freak :/

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    May 7th 2013, 11:08 PM

    I wonder what its like to work in a prison with all these people.

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    May 8th 2013, 2:00 AM

    Don’t judge a book by its cover, is a well worn phrase, but his mugshot might well be an exception to the rule.

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