A judge has described domestic violence as cowardly and morally reprehensible before she sentenced a man for an attack on his ex-partner in her home
Image: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland A JUDGE HAS described domestic violence as cowardly and morally reprehensible before she sentenced a man for an attack on his ex-partner in her home.
When the victim did not show up for the trial and could not be located by gardaí, the Director of Public Prosecutions agreed to accept guilty pleas to the less serious charge of assault, which has a maximum penalty of six months. The woman told gardaí that he looked “real evil”. She told him there was nobody there and she wasn’t “with anybody else” and he said to her “I know you weren’t, come on and we’ll have sex”.
The woman later said that she felt a lot of pressure on her throat and wanted to scream but couldn’t. She said she felt her eyes rolling in her head and was crying and begging him to leave. The court heard that Byrne had ended the relationship a few months earlier because “of a few incidents”. She said she felt numb and scared after the assault, telling gardaí: “I’m afraid if he sees me again, he’ll kill me, I’m so scared.”
Judge Pauline Codd said this was a cowardly and morally reprehensible attack on a woman in her own home. She said the aggravating factors were the level of violence and the fact that he was in breach of a bail condition to stay away from the woman.
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