Man avoids jail for crèche head-butt

A barrister who head-butted a crèche director and broke her nose has been given a three-year, suspended sentence and told to “keep away” from his victim and any of her staff for 15 years.

Michael Waters, aged 41, of Ava Avenue, Belfast, was found guilty of assaulting the woman and causing her harm at her Dublin crèche on Jan 4, 2012. He denied the offence.

During the trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, the victim told the court she had been in her office beside the crèche on the day in question when one of her staff phoned at about 12pm to say Waters had arrived.