No punishment for hacking ex-boss’s phone

A civil servant who was found guilty of spying on her former supervisor by hacking into her phone’s voicemail messages, has escaped punishment.

Dublin City Council employee Severine Doyle, aged 39, of Parnell Court, Crumlin, had pleaded not guilty to 11 charges under the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act.

However, following a hearing last June she was found guilty of intercepting voice messages on a mobile phone used by Teresa Conlon, Dublin City Council’s head of housing allocation.