He said that given the harassment lasted for three months it was “at the less serious end of the spectrum” of such an offence and Condron does not deserve a custodial sentence.
Judge Nolan accepted that both Condron and the woman have since gone their separate ways and there has been no contact since she made a statement to the gardaí.
LET GRIEF BE A FALLEN LEAF FREE
Get ahead of the day with the morning headlines at 7.30am and Fionnán Sheahan's exclusive take on the day's news every afternoon, with our free daily newsletter.Įnter email address This field is required Sign Up Judge Martin Nolan accepted that the relationship had been going well but it at some point Condron became abusive, and “it seems that the car accident changed his personality and changed the relationship”. “He refused to accept that she had moved on,” Mr Spencer said before he added that this had been his client’s first relationship, “his first love”. “He should have ‘let grief be a fallen leaf’ and move on,” Mr Spencer said.Ĭounsel said it had been a “very good relationship at the beginning” and Condron had wanted to hold onto it at all costs. Keith Spencer BL, defending, said his client found it very difficult to let the relationship go. He also threatened to send the woman’s parents intimate photographs she had sent him during the course of their relationship.Ĭondron of Derry Drive, Tinahely, Co Wicklow, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to harassing the woman between December 2019 and March 2020. He said after the relationship ended Condron regularly threatened to kill himself. Each time she had tried to break up before that Condron would try to stop his behaviour and would improve but would “fall back into the same pattern”, the garda confirmed. The woman ultimately ended the relationship after numerous attempts to do so. When she awoke the following morning Condron would still be on the call looking at her. On occasion he would video call her as she was going to bed in her own home and ask her to leave the phone open.
Garda Joseph Melvin told Elva Duffy BL, prosecuting that the woman said Condron would ring her about 15 times a day and would ask her to take photographs to prove who she was with. The woman later told gardaí that after the accident Condron’s attitude changed and he became paranoid, obsessive and possessive. A Wicklow man who became obsessive with his “first love” after a road traffic accident changed his attitude to their relationship has been given a suspended sentence for harassing the woman.ĭenis Condron (23) had been dating the woman for a number of months when he was involved in a car crash.
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