Paul Moody Garda

2022 - 7 - 26

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Unmasked: Serving garda jailed for coercive control of his cancer ... (Sunday World)

A serving garda has been jailed for three years and three months for the coercive control of his terminally-ill partner.

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. “Women are afraid to tell the truth. “He has robbed me of so much that I cannot get back. “He was beyond evil with his words”. Later he came to the hospital. “I believed he was going to kill me so many times. She said she couldn’t battle cancer and a war with him. He said Moody had carried out a catalogue of vile and humiliating criminal misbehaviour. She later made a statement of complaint, which ran to 280 pages. The messages were described in court as threatening, vile and abusive. “I was not just fighting cancer.

Garda Paul Moody jailed for three years for coercive control (Newstalk)

Moody pleaded guilty to coercively controlling the woman over a three-and-a-half-year period, beginning soon after they met online in May 2017. During that time ...

Today, the judge described him as a bully who made her life hell before jailing him for three years and three months. Paul Moody, a member of An Garda Síochána, has been jailed for three years and three months for coercively controlling his former girlfriend. Garda Paul Moody jailed for three years for coercive control

Garda jailed for 3 years, 3 months for coercive control (RTE.ie)

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.

Garda Paul Moody Jailed For 3 Years & 3 Months For Coercive ... (98FM)

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.

Garda jailed for three years three months for the domestic abuse of ... (thejournal.ie)

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.

Paul Moody: 'A bully and a disturbed man' whose conviction has ... (The Irish Times)

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.