Who is paddy conroy

Paddy Conroy, who, in , was convicted of kidnapping and torturing a man but still maintains his innocence , recently reported reformed gangster Stephen Sayers to the police — for cyber-bullying. The gangland world is certainly an odd one: one day you're being convicted of torture, the next you're taking an old rival to court for posting unkind messages about you on Facebook.

The post in question, sent on the 17th of February this year, saw Sayers accusing Conroy of being a paedophile after hearing from a " reputable source " that Conroy's ex-wife had seen an image of a naked girl appear on his computer, before telling her husband, " She does not look over 16, Paddy.

Conroy said he deleted the picture immediately and that it was unwanted spam. He has since taken a lie detector test about this, the result of which backed up his version of events. That Conroy chose to go to the police about this is mildly surprising, given that during the MacIntyre documentary he went on an explosive rant in which he accused Sayers of " coppering every cunt " grassing , said in a manner that implied it was a terrible thing to do. But I suppose being accused of noncery must be enough to justify a bit of coppering?

Despite Sayers originally being accused of sending a barrage of abusive posts, on the day of the court case — the 5th of October — charges were changed so they only related to a single malicious message. The post in question described Conroy as a "jealous grass" who "will shag ya kids give'm [sic] half the chance". The post also claimed that he had "blamed his innocent son for the hard core [sic] child porn" and included the hash-tag GetThePeadofilesOffFaceBook [sic].

Prosecuting on behalf of Conroy, Brian Payne began by outlining the longstanding history of animosity between the Sayers and Conroy families.

He said there had been "long running and bitter disputes played out on numerous platforms, and done over a number of years, now being played out on Facebook". He pointed out that Conroy had never been arrested for any offences related to paedophilia or child porn, and mentioned that, now that both Sayers and Conroy are "in middling years", their feud had migrated from the streets to the internet. Sayers' solicitor claimed that he had merely been responding in kind to similar abuse from Conroy.

The more concerning allegation from Mr Conroy, for which there may well have been serious consequences, is that Mr Sayers is an informant for the police, the National Crime Agency and, ridiculously, MI5. But Glover claims he never signed the note and had not signed any statements with regards to the trial and at no time been an informant to the police. Glover now insists he has turned his back on his life of crime and just wants to be a good dad to his four children, including his year-old son.

He is battling a mental illness and is speaking out to warn youngsters not to follow his path into the underworld. I have flashbacks every time I close my eyes. I was a double Category A prisoner and was locked up with some of the most evil people in the country. I do not want my son to end up with the life I had.

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