A former rabbi has been jailed for 18 months by Belfast Crown Court for sexually abusing four children in Belfast 30 years ago.

Anthony Dee (61), whose address was given as St Bartholomew's Gardens, South Sea in Portsmouth, pleaded guilty yesterday to 10 charges of indecent assault involving three young girls and a boy between January 1959 and December 1964.

The court heard that Dee was arrested at the gates of Bullington Prison in Oxford last September after serving part of a 12 month sentence for sexually abusing three children in England.