'The pictures come as a bizarre four minute video has emerged on social media of Haughney and a man wearing balaclava.'
A man who dragged his uncle’s “lifeless” body into a post office to try and take his pension has claimed “the whole country is talking about me.”
The pictures come as a bizarre four minute video has emerged on social media of Haughney and a man wearing balaclava. He also goes on a bizarre rant in which he claims people are calling him a “serial killer” without any proof. Haughney , who has has 55 previous convictions, was on bail for a theft offence when he and his pal Gareth Coakley dragged his uncle Peadar Doyle to Hoseys Post Office on the Staplestown Road in Carlow in a brazen attempt to claim his weekly pension of E246 on the morning of January 21 last year.
Carlow Circuit Court heard how the shocking crime had created headlines all over the world - a fact acknowledged by presiding Judge Eugene O’Kelly last Friday. In summing up his judgement Mr Justice Eugene O’Kelly said the pair had a “callous disregard for the dignity and welfare of a dying man,” in that they “refused an offer” for a call to help and “literally abandoned him on the floor of the post office.”
The court heard how an “agitated” Haughney tried to falsely blame post office staff for his uncle being dead - when he dropped him to the ground after they refused to give him the €246 euro pension payment. Shocking CCTV footage was shown in court of Haughney and Coakley dragging what was described by a witness as a lifeless and “grey coloured” Mr Doyle along the street and into the post office.
While on route he said he received a subsequent call that this male “may have had a heart attack” and therefore he grabbed a defibrillator and went to the scene. Ms Knight pulled over and asked the men “Is he alright lads” to which Mr Haughney told her “no he’s grand, he’s fine” and Mr Coakley informed her that they had already called an ambulance.
Ms O’Toole told gardai she was in a state of shock - and in a subsequent victim impact statement said what had happened that day would remain with her for the rest of her life.
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