Meav Doyle described husband as ‘a monster in our home’
Meav McLoughlin-Doyle pictured speaking to media outside Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, following the sentence hearing of Mark Doyle. Photograph: Collins Courts
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Maev Doyle spoke to the media after former garda Mark Doyle was sentenced to six years in prison for assaulting her and her sons over the course of 11 years. Doyle was described by his wife as “a respected member of the community but a monster in our home”, who subjected her and her four children – two of whom she had with Doyle – to a litany of violent acts and coercive controlling behaviour.
She was still dealing with a tsunami of knock-on harmful effects of her marriage and its break-up. The constant battle to “cope” was “exhausting” and she and her children were now “constantly on the back foot”. The court was told Doyle, who grew up in Carlow in a family where his father was a violent alcoholic, met Ms Doyle in March 2007 when she was on a hen party in Carlow. Her previous relationship, with the father of her two eldest children, was ending at the time and she began a new relationship with Doyle later in 2007.
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