https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2022/0725/1312142-coercive-control/ is it mental illness or evil or is it family background? or maybe nothing he just choose to be like that?
I think its usually people with really low self esteem who act like this, they fear the person they are with will leave them because why would they stay with them? seeing as they are such a loser and know it.
My guess is that he simply is a complete and utter C*nt.
There is too much of looking to give people like this an excuse, whether it's mental illness or good/bad upbringing and of course he managed to escape the headline sentence that so often seems to happen in this country.
Makes you wonder why she stayed/ continuously returned..I never get this.
”He also said the man had mental health issues, including depression and anxiety”. I can’t believe this is the best the defense could come up with. They must have known that nobody would buy this.
And why can the defendant not be named?
So many questions..
He's been named now.
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2022/0726/1312309-garda-sentence/
Makes you wonder why she stayed/ continuously returned...I never get this.
She said she could never understand why women tolerated it either...until she found herself in that situation. By then, he had broken her down.
Wasn't diagnosed with a severe mental illness that could cause psychosis, wasn't diagnosed with a personality disorder like psychopathy/sociopathy/NPD (none of which would excuse anything but would help explain) therefore seems to be just an appalling person.
Sentenced to 3 years and 3 months, surely that level of prolonged abuse warrants a longer sentence?
Depression and anxiety don't cause that type of behaviour, he's just a twisted bully. I'm sure his fellow inmates will welcome him with open arms, being an ex guard ...
The sentence seems extremely lenient. Oh wait, the judge was Martin Nolan - that explains it.
That sentence is pitiful for such crazed violence and intimidation. And will make people think he got a lenient penalty because of working in that same system for 20 years and having friends in high places.
Feck all remorse from him too.
Yep, begs the question.........who judges the judges.
Yawn
Are you serious?
unfortunately they are. Any thread where the perpetrator is a man and the victim is a woman you can find that poster downplaying what happened and/or blaming the woman.
That poster is also a self-confessed serial manipulator and controller himself. Utterly unsurprising that they're blaming the victim and defending the perpetrator.
Fwiw, the maximum sentence the judge could have imposed was 5 years. He took into account the guilty plea and the fact that prison can be "difficult" for former Gardai. My heart bleeds.
I remember them on a thread not so long ago about a woman that was raped by bouncers while she was blind drunk.
People generally don't understand what our legal system is based on. Due to the punishment nature of imprisonment by the British when we formed our own judicial system it is meant to be based on possibility of repeating the offense and not punishment. Hence a person can admit they weren't looking at the road then drove over a cyclist killing them gets no prison time at all.
5 years would still be very lenient for this. Physical and psychological abuse, harassment, theft (including her cancer medication and hospital bag), abusing his power as a Garda etc., I hope prison is very tough for him.
this….
did the wrong thing, what influenced it is neither here not there, he had choices and chose wrong.
A desire for power and control same reason he became a guard so he could exercise power and control over others.
I wonder what else he got up to in his job as a Garda, whose word alone is usually trusted in a court of law.
Thanks, didn't realize this poster had form
There is nothing defendable about his behaviour; and I actually think he sounds pretty out of control and deserves a prison sentence. It doesn’t change the fact that I do not understand why people decide to stay or even return to relationships like this.
I also think he will be further assessed in prison because of the clearly sadistic elements of some of his behaviour.
At least he pled guilty though so that’s one thing
Low self-esteem and a job with power over people is a lethal combination, it's a guess but I would think he has aspects of some sort of personality disorder everything is black and white combined with intense jealously of others.
I bet some of his colleagues were superficially friendly with him but wary of him as well and some avoided him.
That sort of behavior does not occur in isolation some of his colleagues must have known what he was like. The Garda who knowling put the woman through to him when she asked to speak to the superintendent of the station should be disciplined including losing his job.
When he was barred from the hospital did the hospital get in touch with his superiors and tell them what was happening?
His hate has aged him quite a lot in 9 years
Today
2013
Yes, seems to be contrarian for the sake of it a lot. Now sometimes it's good to see people not kneejerk react on emotive matters, but just trying to look edgy is a different story.
Best friends with a minor celeb someone he aspires to be or that appears to have all the things he wants that fits, at some deep level id say he was intensely jealous of his friend but the friend would never know.
Back then he looked much older than 33.
42 now? Looks 60!
If 5 years is the max sentence, then it’s a joke of a penalty for such a crime but in fairness a guilty plea does need to be acknowledged in terms of a somewhat reduced sentence but more to the point, the penalty is way too low in the first instance.
Secondly, did anyone listen to the account on RTÉ last night? The Gardai themselves need to be investigated around the handling of this case - there were big failings in terms of the perpetrator being able to manipulate his colleagues and other state services - that’s not good enough and I’m sure added greatly to the grief and suffering of the poor victim
Yes, his abuse of Garda power and how he got away with it is a huge issue. Others were obviously involved, he was barred from a hospital FFS.
If the maximum is 5 years then it seems appropriate to reduce a fair portion for pleading guilty, as that saves the victim an enormous amount of stress, so 3 and a half seems appropriate. If there is any counterargument then surely it can only be based around the maximum sentence being 5 years, and not the applied sentence.
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