Domestic violence court deals with up to 30 applications, including from elderly woman in wheelchair
Up to 30 people applied on Friday for emergency orders under the Domestic Violence Act at the Dublin district family court. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collinsafter her husband allegedly produced an automatic rifle and threatened to shoot her has secured an interim barring order against him.
Her husband remains in their native country but has repeatedly threatened to shoot or kill her and their daughter, and has ordered her to leave their jointly owned Irish home, she said. “He is saying he is going to come here and destroy all our lives.” She is in fear of him, she told Judge Gerard Furlong.
There is a background of drink and drugs and the alleged abuse included the woman being punched in the face by her granddaughter, aged in her 20s, the judge was told. Her food, medication, phone and laptop had been stolen by her daughter on occasions, leaving her very vulnerable, the court heard. She had sought barring orders but the judge said, due to “a lacuna” in the Domestic Violence Act, she could not seek a barring order against the adult granddaughter. The barring order application against her daughter, and an application for a five-year safety order against her granddaughter, were adjourned to February.
At her sibling’s funeral, he told her he would put her in of top of her dead sibling, she said. “I can’t live with it any more.” Her father earlier told the judge he previously obtained a protection order against his wife over “extremely abusive” behaviour towards himself and their daughter.
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