Gardaí are closely monitoring the situation after a 59-year-old convicted child porn offender was targeted by vigilantes twice within the space of a week.
It is understood that officers have given David _____ security advice after his car was torched near his home off Drogheda Street in Balbriggan on Tuesday evening.
The arson attack happened just four days after vigilantes smashed up the same vehicle.
Our images show _____’s car on fire in an incident that is being investigated by Balbriggan gardaí.
“An exact motive for this has yet to be established but there is no evidence that _____ has been involved in any recent crime,” a senior source told the Herald last night.
“The most likely explanation is that someone in the locality became aware of his past conduct and decided to take the law into their own hands in an attempt to drive him out of the area.
“At approximately 5.55pm on Tuesday gardaí received reports of a car on fire in the area.
“Dublin Fire Brigade attended the scene and the vehicle has since been removed from the scene for a technical examination,” a Garda spokesman said.
No one was injured in the incident.
_____ avoided jail in December 2012 after he pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of child pornography at the O2 Store, Scotch Hall, Drogheda, Co Louth, on June 13, 2009. He had no previous convictions.
The court heard that he asked the shop assistant in the O2 store for help and handed him one Nokia phone which had an image of a child naked from the waist down as the background wallpaper.
Jesus Christ this shit has got to stop. Nobody is sinless and these nosy ass people need to be put in prison for hate crimes.
“The court heard that he asked the shop assistant in the O2 store for help and handed him one Nokia phone which had an image of a child naked from the waist down as the background wallpaper.”
So when will the members of Led Zeppelin going to be arrested for their 1973 album cover, “Houses of the Holy”