http://www.independent.ie/national-news/stalker-reported-to-gardai-days-before-murder-1867300.html
By JIM CUSACK
Sunday August 23 2009
The stalker-killer Shane Clancy was reported to gardai on a number of occasions, the latest only two days before the murderous attack on his ex-girlfriend which led to the death of Sebastian Creane and the stabbing of Jennifer Hannigan and Sebastian's brother Dylan, according to friends of the Creane family.
It also emerged yesterday that Clancy, who stabbed himself to death in the back garden of the Creane home in Bray, Co Wicklow, had followed Jennifer to Thailand when she went backpacking to escape his stalking during the summer.
Jennifer Hannigan was released from hospital last Friday and is recovering from her injuries at home. Dylan Creane, Sebastian's brother who was stabbed repeatedly, is still recovering in hospital.
It had been reported last week that Clancy had called off a charity fundraising trip to India in June "citing personal reasons" but it now appears he did so to pursue his ex-girlfriend who broke up with him six months ago. Clancy is also understood to have gone to Australia believing she may have gone there.
Unnamed garda sources were quoted in one newspaper yesterday as saying there were no complaints about Clancy's stalking prior to last weekend. The Creane family declined to comment yesterday. It is understood all parties related to the incident have been advised by gardai not to speak to journalists.
Jennifer began going out with Sebastian Creane shortly before the end of term at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, and it is believed that when Clancy found this out he embarked on the course of stalking that led to the horrific attack in the early hours of last Sunday.
Clancy came across Sebastian Creane on Saturday evening, whether by accident or design, at the Eagle House pub in Glasthule and followed him through the evening to a Dalkey club and then gave him a lift back to his home in Bray. Clancy then waited outside until he saw Jennifer
arrive at the house. He then drove to the all-night opening Dunnes Stores in Cornelscourt where he bought a block of kitchen knives then returned to the Creane home. Clancy first stabbed Sebastian and was attacking Jennifer when Dylan Creane, who was upstairs with his partner, Laura Mackey, came down and tried to stop him. Jennifer escaped through the back of the house and climbed over fences to a house further down the street to raise the alarm. She had a knife embedded in her shoulder. Musician Laura Mackey was unhurt.
Clancy went out to the back garden and unable to find Jennifer he stabbed himself first in the stomach then through the chest cavity into his heart. Remarkably, his body was not found until almost noon the next day.
A friend of the Hannigans said yesterday that the family had been frightened that Clancy could commit an act of violence and reported his stalking
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to gardai on at least two occasions. "He just kept stalking her. She was in Thailand and he went over to see if he could find her over there. He started ringing her parents asking them to tell him where she was. The man was going crazy.
"They went to the gardai apparently two days before it happened just to report. I think he was always ringing her and ringing the family the whole time."
Stalking is an offence under the 1997 Non-fatal Offences Against the Person Act which gives gardai the power to order a stalker not to communicate with the victim or approach the victim's residence or place of employment. There have been a small number of convictions in recent years.
Clancy was a Trinity College student who should have been entering his fourth year studying Irish and Theology. He was described by acquaintances as a very hard-working young man who kept up two part-time jobs to pay for his fees and to keep an apartment in Dalkey and his car. He and Jennifer both worked in the Club Bar in Dalkey and dated for three years, the relationship ending earlier this year.
Acquaintances of Clancy said there were concerns that he had become unbalanced and had talked about suicide. One said: "I heard he said if he couldn't have her he would not be around and nobody else would have her."
The Clancy family are well known and respected in the Sallynoggin, Co Dublin, where they lived and in Dalkey where Clancy's grandparents and other relatives live.
- JIM CUSACK
By JIM CUSACK
Sunday August 23 2009
The stalker-killer Shane Clancy was reported to gardai on a number of occasions, the latest only two days before the murderous attack on his ex-girlfriend which led to the death of Sebastian Creane and the stabbing of Jennifer Hannigan and Sebastian's brother Dylan, according to friends of the Creane family.
It also emerged yesterday that Clancy, who stabbed himself to death in the back garden of the Creane home in Bray, Co Wicklow, had followed Jennifer to Thailand when she went backpacking to escape his stalking during the summer.
Jennifer Hannigan was released from hospital last Friday and is recovering from her injuries at home. Dylan Creane, Sebastian's brother who was stabbed repeatedly, is still recovering in hospital.
It had been reported last week that Clancy had called off a charity fundraising trip to India in June "citing personal reasons" but it now appears he did so to pursue his ex-girlfriend who broke up with him six months ago. Clancy is also understood to have gone to Australia believing she may have gone there.
Unnamed garda sources were quoted in one newspaper yesterday as saying there were no complaints about Clancy's stalking prior to last weekend. The Creane family declined to comment yesterday. It is understood all parties related to the incident have been advised by gardai not to speak to journalists.
Jennifer began going out with Sebastian Creane shortly before the end of term at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, and it is believed that when Clancy found this out he embarked on the course of stalking that led to the horrific attack in the early hours of last Sunday.
Clancy came across Sebastian Creane on Saturday evening, whether by accident or design, at the Eagle House pub in Glasthule and followed him through the evening to a Dalkey club and then gave him a lift back to his home in Bray. Clancy then waited outside until he saw Jennifer
arrive at the house. He then drove to the all-night opening Dunnes Stores in Cornelscourt where he bought a block of kitchen knives then returned to the Creane home. Clancy first stabbed Sebastian and was attacking Jennifer when Dylan Creane, who was upstairs with his partner, Laura Mackey, came down and tried to stop him. Jennifer escaped through the back of the house and climbed over fences to a house further down the street to raise the alarm. She had a knife embedded in her shoulder. Musician Laura Mackey was unhurt.
Clancy went out to the back garden and unable to find Jennifer he stabbed himself first in the stomach then through the chest cavity into his heart. Remarkably, his body was not found until almost noon the next day.
A friend of the Hannigans said yesterday that the family had been frightened that Clancy could commit an act of violence and reported his stalking
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to gardai on at least two occasions. "He just kept stalking her. She was in Thailand and he went over to see if he could find her over there. He started ringing her parents asking them to tell him where she was. The man was going crazy.
"They went to the gardai apparently two days before it happened just to report. I think he was always ringing her and ringing the family the whole time."
Stalking is an offence under the 1997 Non-fatal Offences Against the Person Act which gives gardai the power to order a stalker not to communicate with the victim or approach the victim's residence or place of employment. There have been a small number of convictions in recent years.
Clancy was a Trinity College student who should have been entering his fourth year studying Irish and Theology. He was described by acquaintances as a very hard-working young man who kept up two part-time jobs to pay for his fees and to keep an apartment in Dalkey and his car. He and Jennifer both worked in the Club Bar in Dalkey and dated for three years, the relationship ending earlier this year.
Acquaintances of Clancy said there were concerns that he had become unbalanced and had talked about suicide. One said: "I heard he said if he couldn't have her he would not be around and nobody else would have her."
The Clancy family are well known and respected in the Sallynoggin, Co Dublin, where they lived and in Dalkey where Clancy's grandparents and other relatives live.
- JIM CUSACK
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