Rape beast Patrick O’Brien died yesterday and his victim now fears not being told when his funeral is to take place.
Evil child rapist O’Brien, 84, who subjected his daughter Fiona Doyle to years of abuse, died alone in a Co Kildare nursing home. Speaking exclusively to us Fiona said she hopes she’s told when and where her dad’s funeral is held as she needs to be there to have that final piece of closure.
She added: “I made it clear to my father and family members that I needed to go to his funeral. I hope and pray they understand why I need it. The blame for all that was done to us needs to go with him. We need to heal and need to grieve for the dad I never got ,for the life I never got. I need to let go of the hurt.”
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Fiona told us yesterday that the death of her abusive father marks the end of her abuse horror. She added: “It’s a hard chapter for me and my siblings. It’s the end of a nightmare. He was my dad and, hard as it seems to people, I loved him. I just wish it was normal and we could grieve in a normal way. It’s a battle in my head”.
O’Brien’s death comes a month on from when Fiona exclusively told Dublin Live how she visited him in the nursing home one last time as he lay on his deathbed. She told us at the time: “He agreed to me sitting with him. And he did apologise. He said I’m very sorry for everything.”
Fiona said her father’s words were important to her and provided a kind of closure that she had been seeking. Bray native O’Brien was initially sentenced to 12 years in prison for his admitted rape and abuse of Fiona, with nine years suspended. That was later altered, with an additional three years added following an appeal.
O’Brien’s abuse of Fiona started the night before her First Holy Communion and went on for a decade, with him sexually abusing her in a cemetery, the beach and on family holidays. During the campaign of horrific abuse O’Brien waged against his daughter, he would regularly take her to Deansgrange, where he would clean his parents’ grave before taking her up to a tree near the plot and raping her.
Confronted by us upon his release from prison in 2019, O’Brien insisted he wasn’t a monster. He claimed: “I’m not a monster. I hate that word.” But when asked what he’d call anyone else he read about that had raped their daughter he said: “Well I’d call him a right old b*****d. I’d say he’s a right f***ing b*****d doing that, which yes, you can call me that. But not a monster.”
In a bizarre and lengthy confrontation, O’Brien claimed to us that he was “very sorry” for abusing his daughter but refused to admit that he raped her. “No it was not rape. Well sexual assault yeah, I’ll admit that. But I never raped her. Never.” The pervert added: “Like intercourse now, I’m talking about. That didn’t happen. No, no no.”
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