MEP Kathleen Funchion's ex-partner jailed under Coco’s Law

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but ladies, stop picking these weirdos!!!

"We probably don't have all the details."

Yet you feel the need to give your tuppance downplaying his behaviour.

Great work.

I never said it didn't warrant a discussion?

Just you made a comment that he did nothing wrong to warrant jail time, even though he was sentenced for four months.

What he did is clearly a sustained level of harassment. This is why so many women feel like they can't speak up against their partners, because men like you will just try to pick them apart.

Read the report from the Examiner, who were actually at the sentencing as it includes a lot more detail about what the court heard. I highlighted one particular line in my post above.

Nothing to say about how he did more than just 'looked through the phone and asked for a lie detector test'?

Course you don't. You'd rather downplay the man's behaviour.

Why wouldn’t it be warranted?

He put her up to a sustained level of harassment.

You said she could just leave him. She did, and he then wrote to journalists falsely accusing ‘a Sinn Fein politician’ of domestic and financial abuse, and then threatened her that he would say it’s her unless she agreed to his demands.

Why should he walk free after that?

I definitely don't disagree but the psychological element can make it very difficult to leave I imagine.

what you think doesn’t matter, the case has been heard in court and the verdict has been given…what’s your agenda?

There was no question. You're wriggling now.

When you're explaining you're losing. Your OP reflects very poorly on your attitude to women to say the least.

'Looked through her phone'. That is enough in itself to tell you it was Coco.

IBTL at this stage…

When they coerce her into taking a lie detector test and insist on coercive behaviour by checking her phone- yes absolutely- don’t you?

Alice Ruggles for anyone who thinks 'just leave' is the solution too. Still breaks my heart.

“Let's blame the abuser rather than the victim.”

Indeed- when I see posts such as the above you quoted, it tells me we still have a long way to go, no matter how much progress we think we’ve made

Her ex-husband is David Cullinane.

I wouldn't say he is a scumbag, would you?

How do you know the background to this? I'm from the area and he was only ever seen as a sound fella.