What is the the root of this behaviour..

There are some people you know are utter creeps just to look at.

A quick “red flag” to look out for with people like this is the locking of internal doors around the house.

This is, usually, a clear sign of someone who likes to, and wants to, be in control. Hang around them long enough and more signs will reveal themselves.

Try not to let it get that far, if you can. If you see the locked doors inside, about the house, just get out and don’t look back.

In all these cases, its the presence of narcissistic sociopathic personality disorder in the offender.

This isn't a mental illness, as such, which can be genetic, medical, acquired or environmental, but more straightforwardly a personality disorder, which is almost certainly environmental, though research into the depth of this is ongoing.

Your classic examples include Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

maybe appropriate assessments and treatment in the prison system could prevent future crimes, maybe!

im aware theres no treatment for some cluster b disorders, but appropriate supports may help some within the judicial system, and outside of it, we must continue researching such disorders, in order to try understand them, in the hope of developing future treatments

Any successful treatment depends solely on the willingness to engage with treatment. The basic personality structure cannot be altered. You can't make someone not take pleasure in causing suffering. You can, if the individual is open to it, support them in reflecting on their behaviour and its impact on others. Help them gain insight, so to speak. BUT it's not always such a good idea to give manipulators the tools to become even better at manipulating.

The execption I'd make here is with Boderline Personality Disorder, now known as Emotional Disregulation Disorder. Very unfairly lumped together with other cluster B disorders, but the root cause of their behaviour is an attempt to control overwhelming and fluctuating emotional states. Very treatable once the sufferer is open to it.

I don't accept in any way that people who are classified as NPD or APD are in any way ill. I see those labels merely as a way to medically classify clusters of specific behaviours and character traits, nothing more. I also don't accept they lack empathy. They are people who choose to act in ways that are solely beneficial to themselves because they simply do not care about how their actions affect others. They choose not to care. You can't manipulate others if you lack empathy, because in order to understand what motivates others, what will cause pain to others, you have to have empathy. These people are just wicked, evil, whatever word for bad to the bone that you want to use. They choose their behaviours that harm others because they enjoy harming others. They are scum. Nothing more complicated than that.

Not really. He was an ugly bastard with a head like a blighted potato then as well.

He will never get a job in this Country again 😂 piece of dirt.

I wonder how his family have taken it, I would disown him if he was my son, brother etc evil fcuker.

Hopefully she leaves the Country with her child, Moody wont be able to do anything about it as he isn't a guardian now.

There we go. This is more unhinged than the last time

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2026/0519/1574146-paul-moody-court/

This scumbag in court again sentenced for similar treatment of another woman, this was before the previous case.