Woman’s conviction for harassing ex quashed

A judge quashed a conviction imposed on a former air hostess for failing to comply with a court order to leave her ex-boyfriend alone.

At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Carroll Moran said Siobhan Downes, aged 35, had caused “havoc”, but he overturned a one-year suspended jail sentence and, instead, applied the Probation Act.

The sentence had been imposed by the district court for eight separate breaches, between March and October last year, of a protection order granted to an ex-boyfriend.