Cork woman Sonya Egan gets four years over false sexual abuse allegations

The judge said the victim impact statements were the most harrowing she had ever read

Sonya Egan is currently on hunger strike in Limerick prison and refused to come to Cork Circuit Criminal Court or to attend by video link for her sentencing. File picture: Cork Courts

A pathological liar who made ‘a dizzying number of allegations’ — many of them of horrifying sexual abuse — against numerous professional people she encountered in her life has been jailed for four years.

Sonya Egan, aged 43, is currently on hunger strike in Limerick prison and refused to come to Cork Circuit Criminal Court or to attend by video link for her sentencing.