Pictured: Carlow builder who subjected woman to stalking ordeal as she says: ‘He tracked every move I made’

Raymond Dunne was convicted of harassing a woman after placing a tracking device on his victim’s car – and following her every move

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This builder has been ordered to stay out of his hometown – after he subjected a woman to a nightmare stalking ordeal.

Raymond Dunne was convicted of harassing a woman after placing a tracking device on his victim’s car – and following her every move.

“He tracked every single movement I made,” his victim said last night. Dunne (54) was last week given a four month jail term, suspended for two years, after he was convicted of one count of harassing a woman in Tullow, Co Carlow in December 2022.

His victim last night told us Dunne, with an address at Wolseley Park in Tullow, placed a tracking device in her car in June 2022 – and stalked her for months.

As well as the suspended sentence, Dunne was ordered to pay his victim €5,000 within 12 months, stay out of the town of Tullow for two years and not to have any contact with the woman he stalked.

She told us last night that he made her life a living hell. She said: “My whole life has changed since this. I have cameras around the house. I am afraid of him. He is a large man, but he is also a domineering man.”

The woman told us she became suspicious in the middle of 2022 that Dunne was following her. “I would be in the supermarket and a few minutes later he would just appear.

“I knew something was up. I knew he was tracking my movements, but I did not know how.”

She said investigators established that Dunne had spent €16.99 a month for half a year on a subscription package for the tracker that allowed him to know exactly where his victim’s car was at all times.

“He tracked every single movement I made from the moment I turned on the ignition until I turned the engine off,” she said.

Just last week, Dunne appeared in Carlow District Court where he he was convicted of harassing the woman on December 17, 2022, contrary to Section 10(1) and (6) of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997 as amended by Section 10 of the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020.

His victim was in court to see Dunne sentenced – and last night told us of her happiness at the conviction. She said: “I was so relieved. The judge listened to what I had to say. I knew he was never going to jail, but I am happy he has a criminal record. I feel heard and vindicated.”

And in the woman’s victim impact statement, which we have obtained, she wrote of how she had been traumatised by Dunne.

She wrote: “Raymond Dunne’s actions have caused me a lot of anxiety, stress, fear and have changed me from the trusting person I was before.

“I find myself always looking over my shoulder even while standing talking to a friend or neighbour. Constantly surveying my surroundings wondering if he is going to suddenly turn up. I rarely socialise in Tullow anymore for fear of meeting him.

“I will never forgive or forget what Raymond Dunne has done to me and its effect on my daughter and her fiance. He changed my life.

“He took my peace; he’s lessened my trust. He’s made me nervous and wary. To this day I dread to think about why he did this. What was his end game? I am filled with dread at the thoughts of what could have happened. And that will haunt me forever.”

Dunne last night told Irish Mirror that he was appealing the case. When asked if he wanted to make any comment, he replied: “I will have to talk to my solicitor first. It has been sorted in the court, it is going to an appeal.”