2025-10-30
Garda who assaulted then wife to be assessed for 'intervention program'
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: The court heard the maximum penalty for the assault, under Section 2 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, is six months imprisonment or a fine.; Judge Martina Baxter heard evidence in the case earlier this year and had adjourned sentencing to to allow a probation report be prepared.