This news article details the acquittal of law professor Diarmuid Phelan of murdering Keith Conlon, a trespasser found dead on Phelan's Hazelgrove Farm. It explores the history of conflict between Phelan and trespassers on his property, highlighting numerous incidents of trespassing, arson, theft, and threats.
Unlike Nally, Phelan hardly conformed to the general perception of a farmer when he bought Hazelgrove Farm in 2014, though he already had some experience through his mixed organic livestock farm in a rural part of south Co Wexford. In hindsight, Hazelgrove Farm, a former golf course, was a different kind of investment.
Phelan had problems from the outset with intruders coming on to his lands and he had called gardaí over several incidents, including trespassing, arson, theft and criminal damage. He reported constant, aggressive trespassers on his land, who would not disperse when asked and had told him “we will do whatever the f**k we like”. Phelan told gardaí he had been attacked several times, his family were afraid and he spent thousands of euro on crime prevention measures and clearing dumped material. In 2017, Phelan was subject to threatening gestures inside Tallaght district courthouse after giving evidence against three young males convicted of trespassing and criminal damage on his lands. Aged 17, 18 and 19, the trio were later separately charged with intimidating a witness but later agreed to plead guilty to a public order offence. Garda Pulse records showed Keith Conlon knew one of the three. This emerged during Phelan’s trial on a charge of murdering Conlon, who had a conviction from 2010, when aged 23, for burglary and assaulting a garda, for which he received a probation order.Pulse records noted his fellow trespasser, Kallum Coleman, in his early 20s, had associated with people suspected of involvement with an organised crime gang. Coleman has no convictions, is not suspected of being involved with an organised crime group and the associates lived in his general vicinity, the trial hear
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