Cork tenant who put house owners through 'living hell' to remain jailed

Denis O’Connor from Hillside, Cappagh, Kinsale, County Cork caused an estimated €16,000 in criminal damage and failed to pay rent for 16 months.

A 67-year-old man will remain in jail until he comes up with the €13,500 he owes a couple he put through a “living hell” by seriously damaging their Ballinspittle house when he was renting it in hopes of buying it cheap.

The couple described the “living hell” they were put through by the ‘cruel’ behaviour of tenant Denis O’Connor from Hillside, Cappagh, Kinsale, County Cork.