Sonya McLean

2 weeks ago | breakingnews.ie | Sonya McLean |Eimear Dodd

A young woman has said that she was emotionally blackmailed by her mother not to report to the gardaí that her stepfather had sexually abused her as a child. The 44-year-old man had been sexually abusing the girl from the age of 13 in the family home while her mother was out working. The abuse included oral rape and attempted rape. “I still can’t understand how my mother took the side of a paedophile,” the woman said in her victim impact statement.

2 weeks ago | echolive.ie | Sonya McLean

A woman who falsely claimed she was being held captive and being forced to work as a prostitute has been jailed for two years and three months. Brenda Emmanuel (34) arrived at Store Street Garda Station in Dublin in October 2019 and told them she had just managed to escape her captives. She said she had travelled from her village in Nigeria six months earlier to Ireland to work as a home help.

2 weeks ago | irishmirror.ie | Sonya McLean

A woman who falsely claimed she was being held captive and forced to work as a prostitute has been jailed for two years and three months. Brenda Emmanuel (34) arrived at Store Street Garda Station in Dublin in October 2019 and told them she had just managed to escape her captives. She said she had travelled from her village in Nigeria six months earlier to Ireland to work as a home help.

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Sonya McLean

Woman (34) who falsely claimed she was being held captive and forced to work as a prostitute jailed for over two yearsA woman who falsely claimed she was being held captive and being forced to work as a prostitute has been jailed for two years and three months. Brenda Emmanuel (34) arrived at Store Street Garda Station in Dublin in October 2019 and told them she had just managed to escape her captives.

2 weeks ago | kildare-nationalist.ie | Sonya McLean

A Co Kildare man has been jailed for a year after he stole from a woman in her 80s after claiming he would use her money to buy her a new kitchen but instead used the money to pay off a drug debt. Anthony Brennan (50) Beechpark Wood, Leixlip, Co Kildare, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to theft of €6,500 from the woman on 5 October 2021. He has previous convictions for speeding, drugs, robbery and possession of stolen property.