Corkman installed surveillance cameras to spy on family during marriage breakdown 

Complainant said she found electronic cameras in the kitchen, and later found one in the bedroom and told Cork District Court: 'There was a history of coercive controlling'

Accused man, who is now living in another country and will never return, pleaded guilty to breach of a protection order. File picture: Larry Cummins

A 69-year-old man spied on his wife and teenage daughters during the break-up of the marriage by installing surveillance cameras in the kitchen and in his wife’s bedroom.

This emerged during an in camera private hearing at Cork District Court, where he pleaded guilty to three breaches of domestic orders.