A pensioner who exploited vulnerable young women by supplying them with heroin in exchange for them working as prostitutes has been handed a seven-year sentence.
Oliver James MacCormack, 71, was sentenced at Belfast Crown Court on Thursday, having previously pleaded guilty to 40 offences, including charges of human trafficking and controlling prostitution.
He also admitted a charge of perverting the course of justice, witness intimidation and offences of supplying class A drugs.
There were nine victims involved in the case, some as young as 17 at the time of the offences. One has since died.
Passing sentence, Judge Gordon Kerr said MacCormack, whose address was given as Maghaberry…