Ronnie Dunbar
Apr 23rd, 2009 | By Bock | Category: CrimeWe don’t know yet if Ronnie Dunbar murdered Melissa Mahon.
What we do know is that Ronnie Dunbar had a highly inappropriate relationship with the fourteen-year-old girl, and I can put it no stronger than that, since the case is still in court.
However, I can tell you my personal opinion of Ronnie Dunbar, and it’s this:
I think he’s an absolute scumbag, and if I believed he was anywhere near my children I would end his existence without a second thought for myself.
However, that’s just my own view of Ronnie Dunbar, who is without question a despicable scumbag.
I don’t yet know if he’s officially a murderer but I personally believe he killed the poor girl.
Scumbag.
UPDATE: 28th May 2009
Ronnie Dunbar was convicted of the manslaughter of Melissa Mahon, but not of murder. He was also cleared of threatening to kill his daughter. He will be sentenced next week.
Just to be clear about this. Manslaughter is not some minor offence several orders of magnitude less than murder. A person who commits manslaughter intends to kill his victim, or doesn’t care whether his victim dies as a result of hs attack. The only difference is that the prosecution failed to prove he planned the killing.
Dunbar did away with this young girl and then callously dumped her body in a river, as if disposing of a sack of rubbish.
He’s a scumbag.
The longer I live the closer I come to Michael Douglas in Falling Down.
Sad.
Just look at the fucker.
That is one load his mother should have swallowed.
They do say you shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover, however I’ll make an exception in this case. The man has the kind of face you could never tire of punching.
Fox, I am breaking my shite laughing at your comment.
Bock, go easy on the lad. Just look at him there, with his packet of crisps, sure his mammy probably gave them to him so he wouldnt go hungry in court.
The more I learn about man the more I admire my dog.
Before you’re so quick to judge him, can we not think of the ”mental processes” that may or may not have occured when he may or may not have carried out these deeds?
Betty isn’t there a floor somewhere that needs sweeping?
Well something definitely doesn’t add up with that guy and his story, and the fact he looks like a total scumbag leads me to assume he was up to no good anyway with a 14 year old girl and did kill her & is’nt his daughter to testify that she saw him take the girls body out of the house in a sleeping bag? Or did she already? I hav’nt heard.
He looks like he should be off the streets for Something anyway, I wouldn’t let him near my daughter, that’s for certain.
Glad to hear you warning us Benny, ref Falling Down – if I see you in McDonalds at one minute past 12 ordering a breakfast then I’m clearing the fuck out of there.
Did someone not mention during the week that this misfortunate child was pregnant?
“and the fact he looks like a total scumbag leads me to assume he was up to no good anyway with a 14 year old girl.”
“I wouldn’t let him near my daughter, that’s for certain”
Haughey, Ahearn, Lawlor, Burke, Fitzpatrick all wore suits and were pillars of society, would you let your daughter near one of them?
@No.8
Erm, No!
But just look at the fuckers face, straight off you’d know he was dangerous looking brute, Our upstanding pillars of society might get in the door but you’d soon see them for what they are pretty quickly too.
Dunbar is a different caliber of a man entirely
Judging someone by thier appearance is a dangerous road to go down.
i’m originally from sligo and without saying too much he didn’t always look like that. i’ll wait till the whole trial is over before i comment further, however.
“..But just look at the fuckers face, straight off you’d know he was dangerous looking brute”
With not Mr Dunbar in mind, but me.. Never judge a book by its cover.
To be honest, the HSE doesn’t really come out of this smelling of roses either…….. Melissa’s social worker testified in court that McManus/Dunbar had complained to her that it wasn’t made known that she was in care when she went missing.
I’m surprised to see that No 2 comment above from Fox is still there. It is very offensive and more in keeping with something I would expect to see on Twenty’s blog.
Is this man’s mother in some way implicated in this case and even if she were would this sort of comment be appropriate?
On the Bertillon scale……..Guilty!
Its obvious from his body language, Ronald Dunbar doesnt think he has done anything wrong.
His defence team have already started to rubbish the States main Prosecution Witnesses,and are already demonizing this misfortunate girls parents.
Its strange that the Social Services couldnt
keep this girl safe, given previous instances
of girls being influenced by older men.
Two other cases spring to mind, one of a girl
killed by a hit and run driver, and the other of a girl who died of an overdose, both in care.
Is there any point in these agencies, when they blithely ignore coroners findings, reports theycommission themselves, and the ministers for Health and Children and for Social Services our elected represantives.
And yes Ronald Dunbar is a dangerous thug who has escaped prosecution so far by intimidation.
Anyone who knows him is of the opinion he is one dangerous cunt and a total scumbag.
Services.
Does anybody know Dunbar’s bio ?
One I hear the guy has an alias as in “Ronald McManus, also known as Ronnie Dunbar” I smell a rat.
cadrjr – Dunbar is his surname, McManus is his mother’s maiden name. he lived in the UK for a while (some say under a witness protection programme, some say he was ”ran out” of Sligo but neither are evidenced in the public domain) and since his return to Sligo he’s used the name McManus.
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Last time I checked, the presumption of innocence was still good Irish law. I can’t believe that comments here are based on his looks. Handsome people do bad things, and ugly people can be entirely good. Most of us fall in between on both counts. If you defend the presumption of innocence for this man, you uphold it for us all. Let due process run, and let blind justice weigh the evidence in the balance. It’s all that’s between us and anarchy.
Our love of ancient criminal records and our tendency to judge people because of them is an anachronism. In the UK, there is a fade period for most offences, after which they are no longer on your record and you may then legally declare yourself as having no criminal record for job application purposes etc. We are well behind that enlightened approach.
Nut
I knew the guy in school he is a scumbag .always starting something then running away .did some sort of weight training and blew up steriods on doubt .he aint to be feared ,if that poor girl had about 30pounds she,d have beat the shit out of him.have fun in jail i hope all those dads me you their little queen.
Ronnie Dunbar as I knew him in school was always causing trouble and was a total scumbag and I dont think he has changes over the years, but we have to say that he is persumed innocent until found guilty by his peers. The truth will eventually come out or in true justice be burried by lots of money.
I knew Ronnie Dunbar from my time as a youth worker and indeed his whole family were totally dysfunctional. Not making any excuses for the tragedy that has happened, but he was a child at one point and maybe if social workers had intervened when he was a child none of this might have happened.
What do you mean Patrick his whole family were dysfunctional. The majority of his cousins still are! Anyway you can’t tar all members with the same brush, his immediate family aren’t all like him.
With regards earlier comments about his mother thats a bit below the belt, she hardly reared him to do that. You can only rear your children to the best of your ability but the choices they make, good or bad, are their own! Yes he is a scumbag and always was, but I still think the whole story hasn’t come out, I believe his daughters had something to do with it!
Not sure if people have heard but there was someone stabbed last night in the same estate that this dude lived in. It is a small enough estate so just wondering are they linked
Juries are strange entities and they do as instructed more often than not when the Judge advises. The witnesses were at cross-purposes in this case and the result was therefore inevitable. That he was convicted for manslaughter was more surprising I believe.
Natural justice will intervene eventually, it’s unavoidable when guilt is excused. I’ve seen it too often not to doubt it.
does anyone know anything about ronnie dunbars first wife angie?
Melissa Mahon wasn’t the first teenage girl he befriended, when he was married to his first wife he befriended a 15yr old girl who then went on to become his 2nd wife as far as i heard??? I think she lives in England?
He tried to befriend myself and some of my mates when we would have all been about 15 or 16 but it never went any further than him chatting to us and inviting us out to Rosses Point beach with him and his mates. [we never went] He would have been about 28 at the time so he would have no reason NOT to know this was a bit weird. We were all convinced there was something ”not right” with him at the time but at the same time kinda enjoyed the fact he’s go out of his way to ”find us” when we hung out round the town on saturdays. I think he went off us eventually cause we weren’t falling for his charms. And to a group of young naiive chubby/nerdy/creative/indie kids he was just that – charming. Anyway a few years later when I was in college and home for a weekend I was in town with my 15 yr old neighbour who I used to babysit. We met him on the street and they started chatting….. Turns out he knew her and her mates too, in the same way….chatting, liking the same music, flattering and whatever…
So whatever he did or did not do to Melissa Mahon and whatever he HAS been convicted for at least the fucker is off the streets.
Let’s just hope it’s for a good long while.
Artyeva are you sure you have the right brother, you might be mixing him up with the not so pleasent Stephen! (who is another total scum, )Ronnie fella only moved back to sligo in 2005/6 from the eighties, he didn’t live her in between I only remember him coming home once in all those years!
well the guy i knew was calling himself ronnie dunbar. i doubt if his brother would be using his name. what reason would he have to do that?!
the second wife lives in england his relatinship with her was similiar to his relationship with melissa but id love to know what happened to his first wife and with divorce being relativle recent in ireland ,how come he had a sedond wife? [Mod Edit: defamatory comment deleted]
I see Dunbars newest girlfriend a m/s Ruth Nooney stood up for him in court and after she gave her testimony they waited until the jury left the room before they hugged each other, then she told the newspapers she would wait for him faithfully until he is released. And this lady swore on the bible.
Some people will never get sense.
The evening herald is doing interviews with dunbars wife angie.
http://www.herald.ie/national-news/i-woke-to-find-ronnie-with-a-breadknife-to-my-throat-1755293.html
the interview is wth his second wife,there was a previous one.
i think it realy sad wat you are doing i now he kill that girl but petty web site like ths is sad ???
AND BY THE WAY STEVEN DUNBAR USED HIS NAME
Any possibility of writing your comments in English?
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dunno if you should be reprimanding tha last contributor about the awful spelling , its good to try at least and probably took great effort on that persons part
Give me a break. That could have been written better by my dog.
so what . i still dont think you should exclude people , isnt that i bit elitist.so im not giving you a break.
There’s a policy on this site. Comments are required to be in Irish or English. The comment from Samantha was in neither.
I recommend reading the comments policy.
thats shite it was in badly spelled english . have some tolerance.
There will be no further discussion on this. If you wish to set up your own web-site with different standards, you’re free to do so.
your an arrogant bollocks too bad i love the rest of you.
Them’s the rules.
dont you recognise the name. dont you think her contribution badly spelled or not is quite fascinating .
People are free to leave comments under any name they choose. I have no idea who that commenter really is.
use your intuition . i feel sure its finely tuned.
Hope he rots.
me too,I think he got off far too lightly.
can any one tell me if ronnie dunbar was related to a dunny dunbar?..i grew up in sligo and he was a good friend of mine..ive been reading about what happened to melissa and im truly shocked by it..poor girl..wot a scumbag..
Hi Bizzy I’m pretty sure they were brothers, what ever happened to Dunny? I’ve been away from Sligo so long I am completely off the radar!
whwt ever you think of ronie the rest of his family are not like him as far as dunny he got knocked down 10 years ago in london ripxxx couldnt meet a nicer fella and his mum sweetheart.so your intitled to your comments on ronnie but leave his family out of it please?
poor dunny..he was a lovly bloke..and a good mate..r.i.p..cheers mel 4 lettin me know..
ye make me sick. and for you nemo get the facks before you talk abought me i was a witness for the state not for ronnie so you tell me who has to get sence.
How could anyone be so selfish, does that poor girl not matter.
Sense is staying as far away as you can from a monster like that, not sticking by him.
and who said i was sticking by him. don’t be leave everything you read. mel dose matter more than any one
I apologise if i got it wrong. So sad that he has caused so much pain and heartbreak to so meny people.
I hope all involved will learn to move on and live happy lives.
He is the only one who should be suffering.
the foxes comment should be removed. that woman who has done no wrong at all has passed away. It shows that this is an appalling site if that comment stands.
It shows that Fox is an idiot. However, if I had to remove every comment left by idiots I’d never be finished deleting things.
Well God rest her soul, the poor woman, she was a good person. We all should take stock cause at the end of the day we all do our best for our kids but we can’t change the way they will turn out.
if anything learn from foxs comment you should not write about family members they should not suffer aswell they have not done the crime let that woman rip.
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i went out with this man for 8 months He was so controlling My kids disliked him intently So glad i got away from him I cant b controlled and he really didnt like that!! Hope he stays there for the rest of his natural life Im so thankful that wasnt one of my kids or me even Keep him where he is!!!!!!!
Sue — 8 months is quite a long time, isn’t it?
yes but he started as being a nice guy I saw a different side to him when we went out to the coast in hiscar He went mad at traffic lites accusing me of looking at other guys I was told to ONLY look out of the main windscreen From that timeon things deteriorated He could see that and asked me to move to the scottish highlands with him and my kids Thank god i saw sense and got out He was i thought a man who had taken on his kids from an abusive mother How wrong i was
i lived in the same house as ronny ( in flat above..1) in essex 18 years ago he was with that lisa conroy at the time
the daughter was only a baby ….god they were a evil couple
Were they both evil? God love the kids
yea it was her that was getting most of the attention from social services.over the way she treated the kids. I rember one of the big stores reporting her over the way she beat the child in store .,i had hell from them