A young woman was caught by the throat and punched twice in the eye by her boyfriend and later that night she called to his home and got into bed with him, it emerged yesterday during a trial.

Gardaí objected to bail being granted to a man accused of crashing into a Garda patrol car at the weekend but the accused said yesterday it was the gardaí who should be sent to jail.

A woman who had boiling water with sugar poured over her leg said after her ex-boyfriend was jailed yesterday that women should get out of relationships with possessive and violent men.