'Up against a monster': Garda coercive control case important for other survivors

Paul Moody arriving at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his sentence hearing. Picture: Collins Courts

A coercive control conviction, in which a serving garda terrorised a woman with cancer almost to the point of suicide, is an important case to encourage other survivors to speak out, experts have said.

A 43-year-old woman told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court how her former partner Paul Moody, a serving garda, told her the only reason he had visited her while in hospital was to “watch you bleed to death”.