David Keane, nephew of murdered Limerick crime boss Kieran Keane, received a four-year prison sentence for falsely imprisoning and assaulting his former girlfriend.
A nephew of murdered Limerick crime boss Kieran Keane, has been jailed for four years with the final year suspended, after he falsely imprisoning his then girlfriend and subjected her to a vicious assault. David Keane, (32), Island Road, Assumpta Park, Limerick, swung an axe at the woman, stood on her head, and beat her during the two-hour attack. It happened at Cherrydale Court, Dublin Road, Limerick, in April 2021, the Limerick Circuit Criminal Court heard.
Keane attacked the woman after he started arguing with her over how much money she had received in a pay-slip from her job. When the woman replied that her wages was her own business, Keane retorted, “It is my business, I’m your boyfriend, I own you,” the court heard. Sentencing Judge, Colin Daly, said Keane locked the woman into the apartment so “the victim could not escape the violence”. “He (Keane) pulled her by the hair and threw her to the ground and attacked her with an axe,” the judge said. Keane, who has two children from another relationship, ran at the woman with a small axe or hatchet, narrowly missing her after she ducked out of the way of the blade. Judge Daly said Keane stood on the woman’s head, and banged her head on a bathroom floor. After a sustained two-hour assault, the woman managed to flee the apartment and run out onto the street but Keane tried to drag her by her hair back into the flat. Judge Daly said that a “caretaker” at the apartment intervened and the woman eventually fled from Keane’s clutches. Keane returned to the flat, barricading himself inside, and was eventually arrested after Gardai broke into the property after Keane would not respond to their requests to come ou
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