Read this news story.
Now remember this thread?
Well, as we speak the Gardaí are ripping the door off the noisy neighbour’s flat, as apparently he is their chief suspect in this case.
Needless to say my door is locked and I am happier than ever that my husband was the one who asked him to turn the noise down!
Of course nothing is proven, no charges have been brought, he could be a lovely and completely blameless individual etc.etc.
At this point, however, I’m not terribly happy.
:eek:
Ummm…next time, I’d try earplugs.
Seriously, I hope everything is okay. Maybe he’s just loud.
E.
Hey, aren’t the neighbors of murderers always supposed to describe them as “quiet”?
He must be innocent.
A couple of years ago they found out that the guy living in a house on the same block as my parents had dismembered his girlfriend, and kept her head in his refrigerator.
You could stand on our back porch and hit his house with a rock, if you wanted to.
Well at least he’s not there at the moment, apparently they arrested him at 5:30pm last night, which would explain why three policemen asked to come into our flat and climb over our balcony on to his at about 8pm last night…although they told us they were worried about him as he hadn’t been heard from for a few days.
Which meant we spent all night worrying that there was a dead body next door, only to find out that they were just seeing if they could spot a way of getting in, and to see if there was anyone else in the flat.
Seriously, we never even saw the guy, just heard him through the walls, and apart from his love of bass-heavy trance and all-night parties, there was nothing weird or worrying about him.
Maybe it was the rocks bouncing off his roof that drove him crazy…?
That’s only serial killers. This guy is a n00b. It takes a couple killings to quiet a fellow down.
I guess he grew accustomed to her face.
She wouldn’t give him head, so he took it.
Harriett
SWEET Harriett
So knowing
So caring
So chopp - ed
Personally, I’d rather live next to a mudrerer than most criminals. Most people only have one murder in them-- a set of extreme circumstances unlikely to happen again.
Unless, of course, he’s a serial killer. Then all bets are off.
irishgirl: Do you remember that guy that was stabbed in the Front Lounge on Parliament Street back in March 2004?
Some good friends were witness to it and told some rather strange things about the case.
Did you know they set bail at something like €5000? Is that typical? I guess you can’t go too far Ireland, but geezus! I don’t know that $6000 would cover bail on a simple burglary charge here in the States!
They ended up finding him Guilty but Insane, but what the hell does that mean? Will he do prison time or just spend time in the psych ward?
Hopefully your neighbor is innocent, or least won’t be released on some lowball bail. That must be an unnerving prospect for you!
The reason we have such low bail is that we have neither bailbondsmen nor bounty hunters i.e. you have to post all the bail yourself, personally, and if you abscond its the cops who come and get you. Without a passport one cannot abscond. Seriously, running while out on bail is not an issue here.
You have to realise that in about 90% of Irish murder cases the accused has already plead guilty to manslaughter, the trial is to see whether a jury will find them guilty of murder or not. Quite often juries find “not guilty” for murder, which carries a mandatory life sentence, but the accused is still guilty of manslaughter, and the sentence for that is discretionary, meaning that it doesn’t have to be custodial and is up to the judge entirely on a case by case basis.
As we speak the neighbour has been charged with serious assault, and since he gave himself up to police voluntarily, I suspect that he will face lesser charges or simply plead guilty to manslaughter, and the state may not press murder charges.
A guilty but insane verdict requires treatment in a psychiatric institution, usually the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum, and trust me, I’ve been there and it’s worse than prison.
Re: the Mental Hospital, I mean that I have worked there during my psychiatry rotation (med student) not that I have ever been a patient.
Notice how quickly they come back to clarify what they mean when they say they’re familiar with a mental hospital?
Just think, irishgirl* maybe your next neighbors will be a couple with six kids all under the age of seven.
Spoken to our landlord, who (this being Ireland) has a contact in the police.
Our neighbour will not be returning to his flat, even if he does get bail, and apparently he is NOT A NICE MAN.
Since the people who lived there before were a Nigerian couple with a baby and domestic violence issues (she once climbed over her balcony onto ours to escape when he locked her in the bedroom) and you know about this guy…well a nice family with lots of small kids would be A-OK with me!
Sounds to me like there’s something wrong with the apartment, not the people who live there. Is it being advertised when empty as a place that’s possessed? 'Cause I believe even Ireland has truth-in-advertising laws.
It’s not the apartment, it’s the landlord.
Apparently, he doesn’t really care who lives there, as long as they pay the rent, the other apartment he owns in the building is also notorious for dodgy tenants.
He’s one of the few people who don’t require references or police checks from his tenants, his apartments aren’t furnished to the standards of the others, and so he charges less rent. The rest of us suffer for it.
After this I think the resident’s committee and management company will be having words with him about this.
So the apartment is available?
Riiiiiiiiiight. Gotcha.
You know, I always thought you were the “quiet type”. :eek: