Woman scalped by ex with bread knife commended for mercy

A WOMAN whose former partner scalped her hair with a bread knife was commended for her “very Christian outlook” by Judge Carroll Moran at the Circuit Criminal Court, in Tralee.

Geraldine Marsh indicated through gardaí she did not want to see Jason Murphy go to jail, even though he inflicted gruesome injuries on her.

Murphy, of 181 Shanakill, Tralee, Co Kerry, was given a two-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to assaulting her, causing her harm, on August 10, 2007. The court was told the accused called to Ms Marsh’s house at Cloghers Drive, Tralee, and claimed she had been sleeping with someone else. Their relationship had broken up and their young daughter was asleep upstairs.