A 42-year-old woman who waged a campaign of harassment against a former Sinn Fein TD phoning and texting him over 5,500 times over a six-month period and sending him a picture of a rat when made a complaint to gardai has been jailed for two years.
Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard that Sonya Egan of The Lawn, Lios Cara, Killeens, Co Cork sent thousands of emails to former Cork North Central Sinn Fein TD Jonathan O’Brien. Having sent him a picture of a rat she posted on social media: "You don't rat on a Republican."
She also bombarded local community activist and businesswoman Laura O’Connell with messages and posed as a barrister when she first met her. Egan donned robes and claimed she had come from family court when they made an arrangement to meet over coffee.
