Someone threatened to kill me.

LC 2013 SURVIVOR

Hi there,

I need advise.

I moved into a house and it turned out the guy was subletting. I wanted to move out but he had my deposit so I decided to wait it out. However he started to become threatening; shouting and insulting me.

It got so bad that we were woken up in the night (Thursday) by him throwing a mirror at my housemates door and he unlocked my bedroom door and left it wide open whilst I slept.

He was going mad so I called the garda so we'd be safely brought out of the house. They claimed nothing happened.

I went back the next day to move out with some family members and the other housemates. The garda were 40 minutes late to escort us with safety in and out of the house. We entered the house and had a phone recording everything.

On Friday, we entered the house and began moving out. We entered the kitchen and he was speaking Romanian; there was a knife on the table.

When we got the Romanian translated and he was calling us whore and bitches and he said he should have slit my throat whist he had the chance last night (presumably when my door was open).

I brought all of this information to the garda and listening to the ireland game on the radio, sitting on their as; they told me to come back on Monday to talk to the garda who helped us out of the house at 4am Thursday night. There is someone who we have a recording of who regrets not killing me, is illegally subletting, is driving a car regardless of being forced off the road by Court; And the garda told me to come back on Monday. How is this not Illegal. How isn't he being arrested. I feel very unsafe and would appreciate advise.

TimeToShine

You have no proof, nothing the gardai can do on that front.

LC 2013 SURVIVOR

TimeToShine wrote: »

You have no proof, nothing the gardai can do on that front.

What about the recording? And his car?

Paullimerick

I taught she said it was fully recorded on a phone. And hi it would be easy get proof of him driving illegally. But hi the Boreland game must have been more important to them. Hmmmmmm.

Stheno

Does he know where you now live?

Go back on Monday, often the police want continuity so the guard you dealt with Thursday can follow this up

am i bovvered

Really sorry to read about your experiences, my advice is just keep yourself safe. You won't change the system and do not put yourself in harms way trying to do so.
I have never been in trouble with the Gardai and I am sure there are some that give a crap, however in my lifetime (I am 44) I have had to ask for help 4 times, each time was the exact response you got.
Best of luck

LC 2013 SURVIVOR

Stheno wrote: »

Does he know where you now live?

Go back on Monday, often the police want continuity so the guard you dealt with Thursday can follow this up

No He doesn't thankfully, but I need to work and he knows where I work...

I understand but I could easily have died and they are putting this off..

X6.430macman

Why you move into house when this guy is already a dodge with the car and Romanian before any of the other stuff happened

LC 2013 SURVIVOR

X6.430macman wrote: »

Why you move into house when this guy is already a dodge with the car and Romanian before any of the other stuff happened

He selled living in the house, he was nice to me and so were the housemates. How was I meant to know he was illegally driving.

TimeToShine

LC 2013 SURVIVOR wrote: »

What about the recording? And his car?

I misread, my mistake.

Samuel T. Cogley

Interesting little twist. A couple of provisions would be relevant.

Threats to kill or cause serious harm.

5.—(1) A person who, without lawful excuse, makes to another a threat, by any means intending the other to believe it will be carried out, to kill or cause serious harm to that other or a third person shall be guilty of an offence,

(2) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—

(a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both, or

(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or to both.


Given the OP doesn't understand Romanian it's arguable that there can be no belief it was going to be carried out. I suppose it then becomes a temporal issue - was the threat for then and there, or was it a future threat.

Assault.

2.—(1) A person shall be guilty of the offence of assault who, without lawful excuse, intentionally or recklessly—

(a) directly or indirectly applies force to or causes an impact on the body of another, or

(b) causes another to believe on reasonable grounds that he or she is likely immediately to be subjected to any such force or impact,

without the consent of the other.

Can an angry Romanian, who the OP doesn't understand give the OP them reasonable grounds under section 2?