Riedo killer gets 2 years for assaulting ex-partner
Barry, aged 29, a native of St James Crescent, Mervue, Galway, had vehemently denied trying to strangle his then estranged 27-year-old partner in her bed on August 3, 2007, and assaulting the couple’s then two-year-old son when the matter came before Galway District Court last March.
The court heard Barry had climbed in through an upstairs window at the woman’s house in a violent and drunken state in the middle of the night looking for money and had held her down on a bed while trying to strangle her.
