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Web of lies: How Sonya Egan falsely accused a garda, a lawyer, and social workers of horrific abuse

'There is something very wrong with her. I thought they were all tall stories. It was too much'
Web of lies: How Sonya Egan falsely accused a garda, a lawyer, and social workers of horrific abuse

Sonya Egan, right, with her solicitor Eimear Griffin at Cork Court. Picture: Cork Courts

Sonya Egan, who was jailed for four years for telling career-ending lies against some victims and lies that caused deep personal trauma to others, effectively made elaborate false reports against anyone she perceived to be crossing her.

That was how Detective Sergeant James Buckley summarised the unfathomable damage caused to nine professional people by the 43-year-old woman who has finally acknowledged that she is a pathological liar.

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