Eoghan Peavoy’s threats to the woman included voicemails saying he had ‘fantasies about killing you and all your children’ and other messages of a sexually abusive nature
Eoghan Peavoy of Brackenwood Avenue, Balbriggan, pleaded guilty to two counts of harassment of the woman on dates between February 8th, 2019, and August 23rd, 2022. Photograph: Collins CourtsA Dublin man who sent a barrister a series of sexual and threatening messages has been told by a judge he will be shown “no sympathy” by the court if he breaches the conditions of a suspended prison sentence.
Counsel for Peavoy said he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and harboured “psychotic grievances” against people. He further ordered Peavoy to have no contact with the victim, her family, or friends for the five-year period of the suspended sentence and in perpetuity afterwards. When Peavoy again began harassing the woman, she went to gardaí in February 2019 and asked for him to stop contacting her.Gardaí visited Peavoy at his home and arrested him involuntarily under the Mental Health Act, the first of four times that he would be sectioned between 2019 and 2021.
On April 4th, 2021, Peavoy sent the woman over 70 texts and six voicemail messages in which he used “foul and abusive language of a vulgar, sexual nature”. The woman said a significant amount of the messages were sexual in nature and would make her skin crawl and send shivers down her spine. “They were like an assault,” she said.
She said herself and her husband had to print out photos of Peavoy for their childminder and instruct her what steps to take should he show up at their door. He said in the year 2000, his son became “a different person” and became convinced of a wide range of conspiracies against him.
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