Vasile Plesca jailed for assault causing harm in Dublin

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Vasile Plesca was sentenced to four years, with the final year suspended, for assault causing harm at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 22 July 2020. The offence occurred at a Dublin city-centre flat on 26 April 2017, where Plesca attacked his wife with a rolling pin during a seven-hour ordeal. He pleaded guilty. The court heard that the woman suffered bruising and marks around her neck. Plesca had €5,000 available to give his wife, and the judge described the offence as serious.

The report said Plesca had an intellectual disability and was operating at the lower end of intellectual functioning. The final year of the sentence was suspended.