Garda Paul Moody

A serving garda who tortured and terrorised a woman ill with cancer has been sentenced to three-and-a-quarter-years in prison.

He said he had disgraced himself and, to some degree, his colleagues in An Garda Síochána. It is, he said, a heinous degrading reign of control and overwhelming. Unbeknownst to her he also took pictures of her naked and threatened to circulate them online.

With reporting restrictions now lifted, he can be named as 42-year-old Paul Moody, who was stationed at Irishtown Garda Station in Dublin at the time. 98fm's ...

Today, the judge described him as a bully who made her life hell before jailing him for three years and three months. A Garda has been jailed for three years and three months for subjecting his ex-girlfriend to what was described as over three years of 'absolute hell.' Garda Paul Moody was caught after a colleague found thousands of abusive messages to his then girlfriend on his phone.

Paul Moody of St Rapheals Manor, Celbridge, Kildare, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to a charge of coercive control.

He added that in this case the issues that emerged contributed to devastating consequences for the victim. He said if he refused the adjournment he would proceed to sentence. I couldn’t endure any more pain and torture from this man,” the woman said before she added that she had considered taking her own life. I was afraid to show vulnerability as that was when he attacked me the most,” the woman continued. “He has robbed me of so much that I cannot get back. “He was beyond evil with his words”. He said he had to take into consideration the fact that prison can be difficult for a former garda. Later he came to the hospital. “I believed he was going to kill me so many times. He said Moody had carried out a catalogue of vile and humiliating criminal misbehaviour. She said she couldn’t battle cancer and a war with him. He took secret photos of her naked and threatened to post them online.

Garda used his position to find out information about woman so he could portray himself as her ideal partner before launching campaign of abuse.

But Judge Martin Nolan, himself a former garda, was limited in the punishment he could hand down. Perhaps his most prominent arrest was of two men who drunkenly sailed a yacht up the Liffey in 2017, disrupting the shipping lanes. Later he looked up her friends on the Pulse system and threatened to blackmail them with the information he found. When she was in hospital he told her during a visit he was only there was to watch her “bleed to death”. “Paul doesn’t have a temper, there’s not an aggressive bone in his body, he’s generous to a fault, a great supportive friend,” he added. He beat her again and again, once leaving her to crawl out a window for help.

JUSTICE Minister Helen McEntee has criticised the 'appalling abuse' inflicted on a terminally-ill woman by her former partner who was a serving garda.

Coercive control is overwhelming and that power is even more overwhelming where the abusive activity is by an abuser who appears to hold profession or a position of respect from the community such as in this case, a member of An Garda Siochana." He added that in this case the issues that emerged contributed to devastating consequences for the victim. I couldn’t endure any more pain and torture from this man,” the woman said before she added that she had considered taking her own life. If you speak to us you will be dealt with empathetically, professionally and with respect. I was afraid to show vulnerability as that was when he attacked me the most,” the woman continued. Later he came to the hospital. “He was beyond evil with his words”. “I believed he was going to kill me so many times. He said Moody had carried out a catalogue of vile and humiliating criminal misbehaviour. Moody of St Raphael’s Manor, Celbridge, Co Kildare, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to a charge of coercive control in relation to the woman within the state on dates between January 1, 2019, and November 30, 2020. Sentencing him on Tuesday Judge Martin Nolan noted that the maximum sentence available to the court for this offence is five years. The man threatened to stick a knife in her in one voice message.

Women's Aid has praised the “incredible bravery” of the woman who pursued a domestic abuse case against Garda Paul Moody.

I really want to encourage other people in a similar position to come forward for support.” “Later he came to the hospital. She said that was the last straw, “that was the day he broke me.” He then took my hospital bag with him. We stand with Nicola and are inspired by her incredible bravery. Read and share her powerful words.pic.twitter.com/i1oTnXfZDX

The President of the GRA, Brendan O'Connor, has said he would welcome change to the garda pensions system after evil Garda Paul Moody was able to resign ...

He said Moody had carried out a catalogue of vile and humiliating criminal misbehaviour. The messages were described in court as threatening, vile and abusive. “And they pursued this case and ensured it would be investigated to a very high level. But I think I would take great confidence from the statements from the gardai that they did respond so thoroughly and without hesitation to this report.” “It certainly needs to be looked at going forward. But our colleagues ensured that the victim got justice.