Jingle cells: Irishman who refused to remove illegal windows sentenced to six months According to a report in the Irish Independent, Harold O'Toole, a 56-year-old widower and father of four, last week told a court that he could not afford to remove the windows. His son Harold, said: "I am shocked by it because it doesn't seem as bad as other things that are going on out there. The dormer windows were put up illegally, but I can't see how you could justify putting a man in jail for that. Ronan MacKernan, executive planner with the council, said the first complaint about the windows was received from the public in 2006. Mr O'Toole applied to convert his attic and put projecting dormer windows on the front and back of it. "Cork County Council gave planning permission for the dormer windows at the back, but to omit them from the front," Mr MacKernan said. Despite repeated warnings and considerable goodwill by the council extended to him to remove the dormer windows, he hasn't. He stated to me on a number of occasions he had no intention of removing the windows. A legal enforcement order to take out the windows was made in 2009. Judge Mary Larkin said he had been "deliberately walking around this for six years."