A "very dangerous" convicted Polish sex offender has been given a four-year sentence for assaulting his partner who claimed he tried to hang her in their apartment to make it look like suicide.

A Polish woman has denied she was working as a prostitute in her home country when she met a man she claims tried to hang her and make it look like a suicide in their Dublin city centre apartment.

A Polish man allegedly tried to hang his partner to make it look like a suicide as well as severely beating her and throwing a knife at her head the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.