Overview
- Paul Moody received a four-year-and-nine-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to harassment and coercion in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
- The court heard he terrorised his former partner over years, including sending 2,261 abusive messages in six days and whispering threats to her in hospital during pregnancy.
- He created fake accounts to share intimate images, targeted her workplace, contacted the US Embassy with false claims about her ex-husband, and used his position as a garda to intimidate her.
- The woman said she reported him to the Garda Ombudsman in 2017 and got no action for years, which the watchdog now describes as delays without offering an apology.
- Garda investigators took over in 2023 after finding ombudsman letters during a search, the woman called their response the difference between night and day, and that work led to Moody’s conviction and jailing.