Jail for man who broke bat on wife’s head

THE prison officer who broke a baseball bat in two off his wife’s head with the words “I am going to kill you,” was yesterday given an eight-year sentence as the judge described it as a brutal and savage attack.

“What caused you to stop was that you woke up to the fact that she might lose an eye as a result of this attack … Your previous occupation as a prison officer makes it difficult going to prison, I am conscious of that but you must suffer the consequences of this appalling act. I know it is going to cause difficulties for the prison officers looking after you but they will have to deal with that,” Judge Patrick J Moran said to the accused, Paul Morris.

Morris, 50, beat his wife Teresa Morris so hard about the head with the junior baseball bat it broke in two.