A former Sinn Féin Dublin City Councillor and his father will be sentenced next month for torturing and threatening to kill a man.
Jonathan and Patrick Dowdall water boarded him and threatened to chop him up and kill his family after they found out he was a con artist.
Alexander Hurley, a convicted fraudster, went to Jonathan Dowdall’s home on the Navan Road in Dublin on Jan 12th 2015.
He pretended to be a barrister who was interested in buying a motorbike the former Sinn Féin Councillor had advertised on DoneDeal.
Jonathan looked him up online and found complaints from people who claimed they’d been scammed by him.
He invited him back to his house three days later and subjected him to a three hour ordeal that involved being tied to a swivel chair in his garage and water boarded.
The 40-year-old father of four also threatened to chop him up if he didn’t admit to being a thief – which he eventually did.
The court heard Jonathan’s father Patrick threatened to cut his fingers off with pliers.
Both men pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and threatening to kill Mr. Hurley and both will be sentenced next month.
