Nicola Hanney
Over 14 hours in July 2018, Nicola Hanney received 652 messages from Paul Moody. That’s one roughly every 90 seconds. It’s a staggering amount which paints a grim picture of the unrelenting abuse the then garda subjected her to.
Hanney, who was a young mother battling a terminal cancer diagnosis at the time, received more than 30,000 others in the four years that they knew each other. These would be described in court as “threatening, vile and abusive” in a case that led to Moody becoming the first person in Ireland to be convicted of coercive control.
Fionnán Sheahan is joined by Nicola Hanney, author of Stronger: What Didn’t Kill Me, Made Me, to hear her story of strength and resilience.
The Indo Daily: Nicola Hanney on surviving a terminal cancer diagnosis and ‘vile’ coercive control nightmare
