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The Irish Sun
14 hours ago
- The Irish Sun
Ex-garda showed ‘breathtaking disregard' by inciting men to rape female colleague he impersonated online as cop jailed
A FORMER garda who impersonated a colleague online and incited men to come to her home and rape her has been jailed for seven years. Advertisement Flanagan, with an address in Co He also shared the woman's personal information, including her address, photos of her and her daughters, and screenshots from the Strava app, showing her running route. Flanagan pleaded guilty to two counts of inciting two men to rape the woman on dates between November and December 2020. He further pleaded guilty to six counts of endangering the woman and her daughters between 2018 and 2020, and to one count of possession of four images of child sexual abuse material, known in law as child pornography, on January 7, 2021. Advertisement Most read in Irish News He has no previous convictions. Imposing sentence at the Central Criminal She imposed a sentence of eight years with the final 12 months suspended on strict conditions for three years. 1 Shane Flanagan impersonated the woman on a fetish website and on Facebook Credit: Advertisement
The Irish Sun
04-07-2025
- The Irish Sun
Rapist shouldn't be back on Irish streets after what he did to me & what happened after he was released terrified me
A WOMAN who was repeatedly raped as a young girl by evil Joseph Hogan has called for stricter conditions on child sex abusers after their release from prison. Advertisement 4 Sonya Stokes was repeatedly raped as a young girl by evil Joseph Hogan Credit: Paul Sharp 4 Evil Hogan was released from prison after serving ten years Credit: Gary Ashe 4 Victims of sexual violence are pushing for a bill to provide better protections Credit: Paul Sharp Advertisement Hogan, of Limerick, was found guilty at the Central Criminal The paedo — who also has convictions in the UK for sexual assault — raped Sonya at a house in Limerick, starting when she was just seven between December 1984 and December 1988. Sonya has been campaigning since the sicko's release for stricter release conditions for convicted reoffenders. She met with The women are pushing for a bill to provide access to Civil Protection Orders for victims of sexual violence. Advertisement Sonya told us: 'I'm hoping that they will come on board to support us on this. 'It's a continuous campaign. I'm passionate about this. I'm dedicated to this and I'm going to continue to support people. 'I got justice, that's perfect. But the fear inside me will always be there. I'll always carry the pain. 'PRETTY BROKEN' 'I might look happy, but inside I am very pretty broken. If I was never raped, I wouldn't have that feeling in my soul. 'He should never have gotten out, he shouldn't be out in the streets, to be honest. He doesn't deserve to breathe fresh air.' Advertisement The Victims of Sexual Violence Civil Protection Orders Bill 2025 aims to provide victims the right to a Civil Protection Order from their abusers and the right to be informed of their whereabouts. Sonya said after Hogan's release from the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise, he was initially put up in a local hotel. She said: 'When he got out, they got him a taxi, which was paid with the taxpayers' money. They put him up in a hotel where I helped victims. I was actually in the hotel at the time. 'They put him in under a different name as well. So they were actually trying to protect him. 'WHERE IS MY PROTECTION?' 'But where is my protection as a victim? Am I safe? I don't know. I don't feel protected.' Advertisement Ireland, unlike other countries across Sonya added: 'Are the "I'm going to keep fighting until we get what we want. The justice system needs serious reform.' 'He should never have gotten out, he shouldn't be out in the streets, to be honest. He doesn't deserve to breathe fresh air." Sonya Stokes Leona also shared how she dreads the day her perpetrator will be released back into her hometown, onto the same streets she and her children walk. She was raped in a graveyard when she was aged 13 by Patrick O'Dea, also known as 'Whacker', on dates in 1994 and 1995. Advertisement 'WE DESERVE SAFETY' Leona told us: 'At the end of the process, we deserve a sense of safety. We are tired of fighting.' Shaneda, who was abused almost every day from the age of four by her father, Harry Daly, said they will keep fighting for 'those who come after us'. She added: 'We will continue to support survivors and push for the changes so desperately needed in this country, even as we navigate a flawed legal system. 'We may look okay on the outside, but inside, we carry the scars. That's why we fight – for those who come after us.' Sinn Fein spokesperson on Justice Matt Carthy has introduced the bill to provide access to Civil Protection Orders for victims of sexual violence at the Advertisement "We may look OK on the outside, but inside, we carry the scars. That's why we fight – for those who come after us." Shaned Daly He said: 'The measures which currently exist do not give victims and survivors a sense of safety and security in relation to fears that the perpetrator in their case will not seek them out, approach them or harass them. "We need to empower victims and survivors and help them to have the sense of safety and security needed to rebuild their lives. 'This Bill will make it possible for the Courts to issue a Civil Protection Orders for the complainant where the courts have found an offence has been committed under a range of laws related to rape and sexual assault. 'When the perpetrator is released, the potential to put in place such an order should be provided for in law for those who require them.' 4 The 61-year-old pervert walked free from the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise earlier this year Advertisement
The Irish Sun
21-06-2025
- The Irish Sun
Monster who raped victim while her son was in other room due back on Irish streets as 14 sex offenders released
A MONSTER who raped his victim while her son was in another room will be freed from prison this weekend. The Irish Sun can reveal Connors is being freed after completing a 10-month sentence he received for failing to notify Gardai of his address when he left Under the terms of his release, he has to notify Gardai of his whereabouts. But as he prepares for his release this weekend we can also reveal that he's still classified as having 'no fixed abode'. It's understood the Probation Services are working to find him a suitable place to live. READ MORE IN IRISH NEWS As part of his release conditions, he will also be placed on the He's also banned from trying to contact his innocent victim or any of her relatives. Although he received a 14-year sentence in 2009 for a brutal rape, he's also classified by Gardai as a 'serial thief'. He was released from prison in 2024 after serving a sentence for a series of thefts he committed in 2022. MOST READ IN THE IRISH SUN A senior prison source said: 'Connors is a serial offender and was behind a lot of thefts when he was released from his rape conviction. 'He's due out in a matter of days but still hasn't provided Gardai with any address. Moment evil soldier who raped woman in town centre is caught cowering in toilet 'He always returns to Wexford each time he's released from prison but it's possible he could go somewhere else. 'Connors is a very difficult prisoner and he will probably end up in prison again because he just can't help himself.' Connors raped his victim in 2006 along with another man before he was caged in 2009. They targeted the woman after calling to her BRUTAL ATTACK At their trial in December 2008, their victim recounted how the two men forced their way into her home. Her young She was pushed onto the bed and a piece of rope that was on the floor was wrapped around her neck. The two men denied the rapes in court but were both unanimously convicted by a jury in the Central Criminal Connors was released in 2019 with residents objecting to his return to Enniscorthy in a series of protests. 1 Monster John Connors is set to be released from prison in just days
Extra.ie
14-05-2025
- Extra.ie
Satchwell told gardaí: I buried Tina in house to keep her with me, court told
Richard Satchwell told gardaí he buried his wife's body under the stairs of their Cork home as he wanted to keep her with him and didn't want to leave her alone. 'I wanted her to know the hand that killed her was also the hand that loved her,' the murder accused told interviewing detectives. Following the discovery of her remains at the couple's home in Youghal, over six years after Tina Satchwell was reported missing, the British truck driver told gardaí 'the worst thing of all' was once the lies started, he couldn't stop but had a 'sense of relief' once the truth was out. Richard Satchwell. Pic: Seán Dwyer He told detectives he used to talk to the area where he had buried Tina and the hardest thing was 'not getting anything back'. A consultant forensic anthropologist also told the Central Criminal trial there were no injuries to any of Ms Satchwell's bones, including her hyoid bone. Detective Garda David Kelleher told prosecuting barrister Gerardine Small, that at the outset of his first interview with gardaí following his rearrest on October 12 2023, Mr Satchwell said he and Tina had been at a car boot sale on March 19, 2017, when she hit him a slap. 'Without a word I got a slap, knocked glasses… Someone insulted her or said something nasty, I don't know, and that triggered the slap in the car.' The accused said when he walked into the sitting room of his home the following morning, Tina was at the bottom of the stairs with a chisel in her hand taking down plasterboard. Tina Satchwell. 'This day she flew at me – I went back, fell against the floor,' he said. 'The belt of the bathrobe was where I held her up with the belt like this until she got heavier. Before I know it, it had all stopped, it just stopped. 'I put my arms around her, she fell down on top of me. I didn't know what to do. I held her for a good 20 minutes or half an hour. The two dogs just there sitting looking. They came over, started licking her, I just laid there. Sometime later, I don't know, I got up and just, like, to keep things normal.' Mr Satchwell told gardaí he was holding his wife and kissing her on the head, adding: 'There was no taking back I just don't know. Shame, panic, I don't know.' He said he later went to the couple's 'favourite spot' in Youghal and sat there thinking about his 'next move'. He said his wife wasn't a bad woman, 'just angry at times'. He said when she was calm, 'she was loving'. He told gardaí: 'Once I'd told it, I couldn't go back on it. Buried her under the stairs… I went and got roses and called her my Irish rose but none – Mother's Day so I got her tulips,' he said. 'I ain't got no excuses; once it's done I couldn't take it back.' He later told gardaí he might have 'startled' his wife, who was wearing a lilac nightgown, when he asked her what she was doing as she scraped away plasterboard with the chisel. He said Tina just 'flew' at him with 'so much force' he fell backwards onto the floor with her on top of him. Richard Satchwell. Pic: TV3 News 'I don't know why the robe belt was loose, I put me hands up, next thing I know she goes limp… The only thing I can tell you was she was angry. It happened so fast like,' he said. He said Tina was in a 'blind rage' and her face was 'distorted'. 'It happened in a flash and within seconds it was over. It happened so fast I can't put it into detail,' he said. Mr Satchwell called it the worst day of his life. 'I can't turn around and say, oh her neck was broke or strangulate… It just happened so fast,' he said. 'All the weight come down, the throat on the belt as I was holding up by the belt'. He said he wasn't a 'monster' and the worst thing was once the lies started, he couldn't stop. Mr Satchwell told gardaí there was 'a sense of relief' the truth was out but he hated himself. 'You've no idea how many times I nearly walked off the fish pier,' he said, adding he had stayed for the love of their two dogs, which he said were like children to him. 'I was actually holding the same 17-year-old girl that I met nearly 30 years before. I know you're thinking in your head, 'you crazy bastard'.' He said he initially laid Tina on the couch and the next few days went by 'in a blue'. He said he put Tina inside a chest freezer in the shed two days later on March 22 or 23, away from the dogs as they kept coming over to her. 'I was robotic, working on automatic… She was heavy, so heavy, it was like trying to lift a ten-tonne bag of coal.' Tina Satchwell. He said he dug out underneath the stairs with a spade and laid his wife on the black plastic on the kitchen floor. 'I wanted her to know the hand that killed her was also the hand that loved her'. He said he buried her the following Sunday afternoon, on March 26. 'I know this is sick, I wanted to keep her with me, I didn't want to leave her alone… It's been killing me since I did it.' He said he didn't know how long it took to dig the hole, it could have been 20 minutes or 20 hours, adding: 'It was light when I started and dark when I finished.' He cried as he told gardaí: 'I actually carried her into the hole, I didn't drop her into the hole, I wasn't disrespectful. I can remember folding the plastic around her, putting the flowers in.' He said he bought a couple of bunches of tulips from Tesco and put her wedding ring in the pocket of her bathrobe. 'I didn't want to dirty her so I wrapped her in black plastic, before I covered her I threw flowers in, I wanted to get her roses but I couldn't'. He said he used to open the door under the stairs and talk to Tina and sometimes it could just be 'hello love'. He said the hardest thing was 'not getting anything back'. The trial continues.
The Irish Sun
08-05-2025
- The Irish Sun
Richard Satchwell told people at car boot sales that Tina had developed illness & gone to sister's in UK, court hears
RICHARD Satchwell told a number of people at car boot sales in the weeks after he reported his wife Tina missing that she had developed a respiratory illness. He also told them that Tina had gone to England to stay with her sister, a court has heard. 2 Richard Satchwell told a number of people his wife had gone to England to stay with her sister after he reported Tina missing Credit: John Delea - The Sun Dublin 2 Richard went to a number of car boot sales looking to sell some of Tina's items in 2017 The 58-year-old attended events in He said they had moved into a house which had been vacated for 12 years and the mould in the property had left his wife with a serious illness. The trial has already heard that Satchwell told Today Gerard Carey told the Central Criminal Read more in News He said: 'Richard was at his stall. Asked him had Tina gone walkabout? He said, 'No, she's not here today. She had got very ill and had gone to her sister in England.'' Asked by prosecutor Gerardine Small SC, did he mention anything specific about her prognosis, and he replied: 'He said she wouldn't be at car boot sales anymore.' In cross-examination, he agreed that he actually said in his statement that 'Tina wouldn't be the same again'. Julie Crowley told the court that she attended car boot sales with her mother, and in late 2016 she remembers encountering a lady at the one in Doneraile. Most read in The Irish Sun She said: 'I passed by a stall where there was a car. Laid out in front of it was various clothes and bags. 'There was a woman sitting in the passenger seat who I now know was Tina Satchwell. There was also a man there, didn't know who they were at the time. 'At the time I was wearing Dr Martens. She admired them and asked me where I bought them and I said Schuh in Cork. She was wearing sunglasses and had her hair tied back. 'There was a blanket on the ground with clothes and bags laid out. I bought a waistcoat, just second hand things.' SELLING ITEMS Ms Crowley said she remembers attending another car boot sale in Blarney on Easter Monday, 2017. She told the jury: 'There was a stall set up. I recognised the man and I approached him. He was selling Dr Martens boots, maybe about six pairs. They must have been his wife's shoes. 'My mother had a conversation with him as I was trying on shoes. 'My mother asked him how his wife was? 'He said that she had developed a serious respiratory infection and the house needed structural work and required approval from the health board. 'SERIOUSLY SICK' CLAIM 'The doctor told her she had come just in time and could have been seriously sick. 'He said they were raising money for work that had to be done to the house. The mould and conditions were causing the respiratory illness. 'Mum asked did she know he was selling her stuff and he said she told me to sell them because they were trying to raise money for the work on the house. 'I bought black knee high Dr Martens boots and paid €70.' Ms Crowley said she met Satchwell again at a car boot sale in Blarney on May 1 and he was again selling boots. QUESTIONS ABOUT TINA She said: 'I tried on a different pair, they were tan coloured, in good condition. He said they were only worn once and I paid €30. Mum asked him how his wife was? 'He continued with the same story about the respiratory illness and she was recovering. He said they were trying to raise money for the house. It was the same story he had told before.' Her mother Mary Crowley told the court she remembered meeting Satchwell at the Blarney car boot sale on April 17, 2017. She said: I don't remember how the conversation started, but said they had moved into a house that no one had lived in for 12 years and she had got a respiratory illness. 'I asked him what will the wife think when she comes back and sees you selling her stuff and he said she told me to sell them because they needed the money to make repairs to the house. 'He said she was immuno-compromised prior to that.' DONEDEAL ADVERT He also told Mary Crowley the same story when they met in Blarney again on May 1. Garda Ciaran Crowley told the court that he made enquiries with DoneDeal in August, 2017 about an advert that Richard Satchwell posted on the website on March 27, 2017. The ad read: 'Large chest freezer. Free to take away, just needs cleaning. 'Giving away because I need the space.' The trial has previously heard that following the discovery of Tina Satchwell's remains in their home in Youghal in October, 2023, that the accused told Gardai he had put her body in a chest freezer for a number of days before removing it, covering it in black sheeting and putting in a grave under their stairs with a concrete block on top. INTERVIEW FOOTAGE The jury have started watching a video of a Garda interview with Satchwell, which was conducted on the day he was arrested on October 10, 2023. This was the day investigators arrived at their home to conduct an 'invasive' search of the property that resulted in Tina's body being discovered on October 11, 2023. Satchwell has pleaded not guilty to murdering Tina, 45, at 3 Grattan Street, Youghal on a date between March 19 and 20, 2017. The trial continues before Mr Justice Paul McDermott and a jury of seven women and five men.
