For the longest time, I felt apprehensive every time I approached the mailbox at home, my mind racing with the question, “Will there be any mail today?” However, that feeling has improved significantly since we started this blog as, we have received so much support from people all over the world. Several people have even written to us with suggestions as to how we “catch” this person.
One individual currently residing in Florida who has strong connections to Loughrea reached out to us with an incredibly generous offer to stay in their holiday home for a couple of weeks. What makes this even more remarkable is that these kind people do not even know us personally! The amount of kindness and goodwill shown is truly overwhelming and heartwarming.
To everyone who has reached out to us with kind and supportive words, heartfelt letters, and thoughtful messages, we are genuinely and deeply thankful beyond what words can express. To our family and close friends—those of you who have stood by us through thick and thin and know exactly who you are—there are truly no words sufficient to convey the immense gratitude we feel for all the support you have given us so far. All we can say from the bottom of our hearts is Thank you, Thank you, Thank You. Along this journey, many incredible people have come into our lives, crossing our paths at just the right moments, and I firmly believe that everything happens for a meaningful reason, guiding us toward growth and understanding.
Enjoy the sunny weather.
Susan x
Dear Susan and Dave,
I have read and listened to your posts, and it brings back the nightmare that my wife and I endured for 4 years.
The short story is my wife started receiving vile poison pen letters several years ago which over time became more vicious and demeaning towards her, it upset her greatly, but she also started to fear for her safety so much, so I had to engage close protection for her when she went out.
The Met police were helpful they did the letter scans, DNA, and other tests but it remained as an open case for several years.
Thankfully we had the means to engage private detectives who were the best of the best Ex Met Police detectives.
We were at a loss as to who and more importantly why my wife would be targeted in such a vile manner.
The detectives looked at her connections who she knew and who she socialised with my wife was involved in the Lions Club as she liked to do charity work her own business was successful which allowed her to be less hands on to peruse her Philanthropic work which she truly believed in.
The detectives spent weeks interviewing her and started to narrow down a list of suspects, The content of the letters was very directed but also there were comments in them that were only known to a few people which narrowed it down to the members of her Lions Club. As the detectives did their work, they were sure they had the person and their motive, after 4 years they had the letter writer at which point the Met took over.
Evidence was secured which linked the person to the letters the CPS became involved, and charges were brought, based on the contents of the letters the Judge described the actions of the defendant as being that of an anonymous insidious bully who hides behind the poison pen’ and likened his actions to that of trolls on the internet.
He said that “he observed the harm that has been done insidiously and anonymously to my wife, and how the hate mail diminished and undermined his own self-worth.”
He also expressed anger that my wife had been isolated and lost friends over the ‘poison pen’ campaign undertaken by the defendant.
“What the defendant also attempted to do was to diminish my wife in the eyes of others by writing disparaging letters to third parties about her”
In sentencing the Judge said, ‘The Court must mark the gravity of the offence, and I am sentencing the defendant to eight years in prison, with four years suspended on condition that the accused keeps the peace and is of good behaviour for a period of four years,’
The Judge also imposed special conditions on the suspended sentence, He also instructed the defendant must keep peace with wife for 10 years and ordered her to pay her a sum of £100,000 to cover the cost of detectives and our investigation, He also ordered her to deliver a letter recording her apology and remorse, that she must also write and apologise to each of the persons he had previously written to in ‘disparaging terms’ about my wife.
In the end the defendant had to sell their properties to comply with the court orders they were committed to HM Prison Bronzefield.
The question you will ask is why did this person start sending my wife poison pen letters, Very simple she moved into the area was a teacher in a local school a job which she lost after her conviction, She had joined the Lions Club my wife was involved in, She had spoken to my wife on occasion but my wife had no relationship with her other than to say hello, My wife invited a few of her close friends to her 50th birthday party and this person was not invited, there was no malice involved as my wife simply did not know her, the defendant took it very badly which triggered four years of letters which really affected my wife.
We have properties around the world, My wife used to escape to them she used to go to them to depressurize but sadly she knew letters would be waiting for her at home on her return.
We both know how you feel with this hanging over you and with that in mind I would like to offer the following,
I will pay for my detectives to go to Ireland for a week to look over the letters and the evidence to see if they could find your stalker, if they feel that they can I will pay for them to bring this case to its conclusion.
On top of that I would like to offer our Chalet, in Villars in the Swiss alps, The Chalet sleeps 14, I would suggest that you spend Christmas and New Years there such that you can get a break from your stalker, We will cover flights, food and drinks, all you will need is pocket money as we will be using our place in Mauritius this Christmas.
Please drop us a e-mail and we can firm up plans.
R&M