Unnamed 49-year-old sentenced for assault causing harm in Dublin

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An unnamed 49-year-old was sentenced to 20 months in prison for assault causing harm at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 17 February 2025. He pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to his then partner on 25 December 2019. The proceedings were reported on 17 February 2025.

Another assault on the woman the following year was taken into consideration.

The court heard that their six-year-old daughter pleaded with him not to kill her mother while he held a knife to her throat. Judge Martin Nolan said the first assault was serious and that repeating it was aggravating; he also noted that their child witnessed it.

The victim asked the judge for leniency. The defence said she had noticed a personality change after the man underwent dental implant surgery in Hungary.