Threats delay judge’s decision

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.

At Ennis Circuit Court, State counsel Stephen Coughlan said yesterday Mr Crowley has made 13 separate complaints since February 12 to gardaí, “not so much in respect of the activities of Martin McLoughlin, but of his wider family”.

Last November a jury found father of seven grown-up children Mr McLoughlin, 68, of Ballymaconna, Barefield, Ennis, guilty of threatening to kill his neighbour, Raymond Crowley, in 2010.