The gruesome final chapter in the life of a con-woman who left a trail of fraud across three continents unfolded at a coroner’s inquest in Newcastle West, Co Limerick, yesterday.

Five men walked into a garda station, late at night, and shockingly revealed how, while carrying out a break-in at an isolated rural house in Co Limerick, they had discovered two rotting bodies.

The mystery deaths and Thomas Ruttle and Julia Holmes and the bizarre circumstances in which their bodies were found in a house in West Limerick will unfold at a hearing later this month.

A judge yesterday adjourned sentencing of a ‘neighbour from hell’ after hearing an anonymous letter containing specific threats has recently been sent to his victim, Raymond Crowley.

A mother of two told a court yesterday her 67-year-old neighbour destroyed her life and that she was now a prisoner in her own home.

A father has said that a pony he was told would take his eight-year-old daughter to compete in the RDS instead nearly killed her.