Man put wife in fear and ordered garda out of home

A JUDGE yesterday told a man who put his wife in fear over the holiday period that he had some neck to tell the gardaí to leave his home because it was a private row.

Judge David Riordan said at Cork District Court that the defendant, Paul Conway of Brookside, Lower Killeens, Blarney, Co Cork, was under a court sanction at the time as his wife, Marie, had a protection order against him, whereby the court ordered him not to put her in fear.

“The court takes a very serious view of orders that are given not like Smarties to children, they are given for good reason, but notwithstanding the order he commits this offence. The court must deal with it in a manner to deter him and anyone who might hear his story. All his wife wants is peace in her home. His behaviour was nothing short of acting the bully,” said the judge.