2025-02-17
Prowler who sent hundreds of 'depraved and disgusting' messages is jailed
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Photo: Collins) A man who threatened to publish intimate images of a woman online, sent her hundreds of degrading and abusive emails which were described by a judge as "debasing to all women in general" and was later found "prowling" around her home has been jailed for 18 months. Today Coyle was handed a three-year prison sentence, with the final 18 months suspended on strict conditions, including that he engage with the Probation Services, disclose any intimate partner relationship and engage with appropriate programmes and services.; Judge Codd adjourned to today pending an updated report from a psychologist who has recently diagnosed Coyle as having emotionally unstable personality disorder.