MONSTER MOODY MAKES ME SICK

COERCIVE CREEP GARDA JAILED: FORMER BAIL PAL CUTS TIES

- EMMA McMENAMY and SYLVIA POWNALL

• Shocked salon chain owner blasts former best man
• Mark told case against ex-cop was ‘misunderstanding’

A MAN who put up bail for jailed ex-Garda Paul Moody has branded him a “monster” and vowed never to visit him in prison.

Socialite Mark O’Keefe, who had Moody as best man at his wedding and posted €8,000 bail when he was charged, has cut ties with the caged brute.

Last night, a close pal of Mr. O’Keefe, who owns the Brown Sugar hair salon chain, told how he’d been left “sick to the pit of his stomach” by the evil former officer’s crimes.

On Monday, 42-year-old Moody was jailed for three years and three months for a reign of terror against his former partner who was battling terminal cancer. A close friend of the Brown Sugar boss said Moody had told him the entire case against him was a misunderstanding.

But he was horrified to hear details of the abuse Moody inflicted on his partner, including punching and kicking her and threatening to “stick a knife” in her.

Moody sent her 652 vile text messages in one 14-hour period – one every 90 seconds – described her as being “riddled with cancer” and said he hoped she’d “bleed to death”.

The pal told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “He [Mark] is sick to the core that his name is aligned to this horrendous court case in any way. Mark, as well as others who know Moody, could never have imagined the monster he was or what he did.

“The poor woman’s life was a living hell.