Mark Hayes was described as having a 'serious streak of violence'
A 35-year old Shannon man with a ’serious streak of violence’ who told his then girlfriend while she lay on the floor covered in blood ‘look at you now b****, you are going to be dead soon’ has been jailed for seven years and one month.
READ MORE: RTE Dancing With The Stars pro found dead at home days after being discharged from hospitalThe medical report stated that the woman’s facial injuries “will result in long term disfigurement and stigma” and “her chest trauma and multiple rib fractures may cause her long term physical pain and discomfort”. The woman remained in hospital at University Hospital Limerick for 11 days after her assault on St Patrick’s Day.
Mr Hayes pleaded guilty to both assault causing harm charges on the two victims and threatening to kill the woman but when first interviewed by Gardai on the assault on his then partner, he denied any knowledge of it and told Gardai “that’s a complete fabrication. She has made it all up. She must have let a psychopath into the house”.
In evidence, Det Sgt O’Hagan said that the two had been out drinking on St Patrick’s Day and they returned home to her house at Rineanna View. Ms Comerford said that while Hayes was beating the woman, he took a blue handled sharp knife that was 10 or 12 inches long and he traced it along her back when she was on the ground but he was saying he was going to stab herAs part of what Judge Comerford described as a “cunning and callous assault”, Mr Hayes grabbed the woman’s hand and made her hold the knife and said that he was putting her fingerprints on it so if Gardai came to the crime scene he could say that she attacked him and it was...
Det Sgt O’Hagan said that the woman was still too traumatised by the assault to come to court for the sentencing. Det Sgt O'Hagan said that Mr Hayes has prior convictions for violent assaults and received a three year prison term in 2015 for a 2013 assault at a Shannon hotel.
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