Man targeted wrong house 5 times after row with girlfriend

AN ANGRY boyfriend has been jailed for 10 months for painting obscene graffiti on the walls of the house where he thought his ex-girlfriend was living.

Mullingar District Court heard that when Michael Kelly, aged 24, of Auburn Avenue, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, painted “slut” and “whore” on the walls of a house in the town’s Beechfield estate this summer, he thought he was getting back at the girlfriend who refused to make up with him.

But the house belonged to an innocent victim, Mary McWeeney, who had no connection with Kelly or his ex-girlfriend.