Irish Examiner view: Criminals must be put in the dock

Facing justice

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

There were many strange aspects to the trial of Sonya Egan who has been jailed for spinning a systematic web of lies about multiple people causing despair, destruction of careers, and downright misery among her victims, many of whom were public servants working diligently and responsibly in sensitive areas of community duty.

As the Irish Examiner reported: “Professional people, in some instances, had to stand down from their jobs to let investigations proceed, they had to be interviewed at length, and they had to go home to their loved ones and tell them in some cases that they had been accused of raping a woman.”