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SHARON Collins was at “breaking- point” and had contemplated suicide, after she was questioned by gardai in relation to an alleged conspiracy to murder her partner and his two sons.
She said that “charging me with this would only serve to feed a me- dia frenzy”.
In her second letter to the DPP, Sha- ron Collins said she felt “compelled” to write again, having seen an article in the Daily Star newspaper that day, April 28, 2007.
She said the article had stated that a rich wife had hired a man to pot- son her husband. She said that PJ had received a call from a garda regard- ing the article, indicating that it was related to their investigation.
She said that PJ met gardai and she went to Spain that evening, from where she wrote the letter.
She said she was blackmailed and “perhaps someone had been hired to frame me. I have very, very strong suspicions regarding it, but am not sure So can’t accuse anyone.”
“I think now I should have gone to the gardai earlier. I read in the paper that it was thrown away. Thankfully no-one was harmed,” she added.
“PJ’s solicitor and his sons have put him under enormous pressure to end his relationship with me,” she
added.
“PJ and I have waited for this time for my boys to be independent so we can spend time together. We were as happy as Larry. We never got on as well as before this,” he said.
“What am I to do Mr Hamilton? You are the only person who can de- cide if our lives are to be destroyed.
“My life is very much in your hands. I’m quite desperate for all this to stop. . .Please do not have me charged, please let us get on with our lives. I’ve told the truth about every- den betee
“If I am charged, my relationship with PJ will be over,” she said.
She stated that PJ “knows I wouldn’t do that. I’m not a bad person. I’m not a dangerous person. We are a good team. We practically finish each oth- er’s sentences.”
‘“T noticed PJ when I was nine or 10. He was a grown businessman. When he came into my shop eight or nine years ago, it was like a premonition that he was coming to get me.”
She said she was family-oriented, maternal, domesticated according to her husband, outspoken, direct and abrasive, yet “very soft” behind it rae
She said she had opinions on crime and that the death penalty should have its place in certain situations. However she said she was not quite
as opinionated on that these days.
She said her youngest son David was crying on the phone. “He loves PJ like a father. He was sent home from work today. He kept breaking elena 0F
“If I’m charged or in the papers, he’d hear it immediately. I’m afraid one or both of them would take their own lives. I have considered suicide myself,” she said.
She said if she was to be charged, every aspect of their lives would be reported.
She said she would do anything she could to help gardai to find the truth “as I feel strongly a poisonous sub- stance like this should not be found HIM Ne tomereL UNO M Yan
“I’m being wronged with the accu- sations gardai are making, I’m very much at breaking point.”
In a PS added to the letter, the fol- lowing day, she said, “I paid €15,000 to stop someone damaging our re- lationship beyond repair. That was practically all I had. This hiring a killer theory doesn’t make any sense to me, at any level.”