Student felt boyfriend ‘was going to kill her’

A graphic design graduate has described her “emot-ional agony” after she was punched, kicked, and choked by her then boyfriend who told her he was going to kill her.

Stephen O’Donnell, aged 25, Derrybeg, Ballyclough, Ballyneety, Co Limerick, was “out of his mind with rage”, when he threatened Hilary Kennedy, aged 23, following an argument at an apartment in Limerick City three years ago.

The Limerick School of Art and Design graduates had been out celebrating the end of term exams.