Man avoids jail over anti-semitic emails to Shatter

A council worker who sent former justice minister Alan Shatter a litany of vile anti-semitic emails has been been sentenced to 100 hours of community service.

Dublin District Court heard Mr Shatter was upset over persistent emails calling him a “perfidious Jew” and “Yiddish whore”.

John Dillon, aged 55, of Whitethorn Gardens, Palmerstown, Dublin, was suffering from depression and “went over the edge” after a long-term relationship ended, and he began to act “quite manic”, Judge Anthony Halpin heard.