The downfall of a serial bigamist and conman

Hoarding may be a symptom of deep-rooted emotional problems, Oliver J Killeen once said when asked in his apparent capacity as a psychologist to contribute to a newspaper article on people who had trouble clearing their cupboards.

The bogus practitioner could have been speaking about himself for over a period of almost 30 years he collected at least 19 wives without legally clearing his next impending nuptials.

Killeen, a 75-year-old conman from Castlebar, Co Mayo, was in prison this week after being convicted of bigamy, his past finally catching up with him in Toronto, Canada, his home on and off since the 1950s, after a relentless campaign by the daughter of one of the women he duped to see him brought him justice.