Man jailed a second time for creating fake website of sexual nature for same Cork woman

Stephen Downey picked on the same victim in 2015 and 2020 when the fake site directed people to her home.

Stephen Downey used images of the victim from normal social media and also used images of others that were sexual in nature on the same false profile. Photo: Michael Mac Sweeney/Cork Courts

A man jailed for harassing a Cork woman in 2015 by setting up a fake website of a sexual nature and adding ordinary pictures of the young woman and giving directions to her home, involved himself in exactly the same type of harassment again.

Detective Garda Aonghus Cotter said that Stephen Downey of Lissadell, Maryborough Hill, Cork, picked on the same victim for the harassment. Now six years later he has been jailed again – this time for two years.