20% of domestic violence barring orders flouted

PEOPLE who beat their partners are flouting barring orders in 20% of cases.

This is according to latest crime figures which show that gardaí investigated 1,230 breaches of barring orders, protection orders and safety orders in 2007.

This represented a 3% increase on the previous 12 months and in the first quarter of this year there have already been 325 incidents.