A Cork Man Who Became Obsessed With A Colleague He Hardly Knew Has Been Jailed For 5 Years
It's after he staged an attempted robbery with the intention of raping her at her home in Youghal
Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard that 52 year old James Steele of Reavilleen in Roscarberry became fixated on his co worker Una Ring painting her car tyres pink, daubing her windows with messages and sending letters threatening the rape of her and her daughter.
Judge Sean O'Donnabhain was told that the harassment culminated in a serious incident on the 27th of July last year when Gardai mounting a surveillance operation intercepted James Steele in a housing estate in Youghal.
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