Judge: Menacing texts a case of ‘true love gone wrong’

“TRUE love gone wrong” was how a District Court judge described the case of a middle-aged man who sent numerous abusive texts to his ex-girlfriend over a nine-month period.

Kevin Heffernan, aged 53, of 9 Presentation Road, Gurranabraher, Cork, admitted sending the texts from the unregistered ready-to-go phone and told investigating gardaí that he had suffered a head injury and meant nothing by the texts.

Heffernan told gardaí: “I was still in love with her, I wouldn’t harm a hair on her head.”