Couple regularly complained about each other at Garda station, court told

A couple who split up repeatedly made complaints about each other at a local Garda station.

The domestic matter came to light in a case at Cork District Court against Stephen Jordan, of 24 Castlepark, Ballincollig, Co Cork.

Inspector Gary McPolin said Jordan had called to Ballincollig Garda Station to make a complaint. A garda busy dealing with another person told Jordan the complaint would be recorded on the Garda Pulse system.

However, Jordan refused to leave, asking to speak to another garda. Insp McPolin said a sole garda was on duty. “Another member of the public in the station had to listen to this vitriol from Mr Jordan,” he said.

Jordan returned to make a similar complaint on another date. The same garda advised him to calm down and return later. However, Jordan was verbally abusive to the garda and a colleague.

Insp McPolin said: “He had an acrimonious split with his ex-partner and he arrives in the station in a state of anxiety over his ex-partner and takes it out on the gardaí.”

Eddie Burke, solicitor, accepted that was the pattern of the former partners making complaints.

Judge Aeneas McCarthy

said despite a previous suspended sentence hanging over Jordan, the accused did the same thing again on two more occasions. Mr Burke said that in the defendant’s own mind, he was improving as he was no longer involved in public order offences and was going to the garda station instead. The judge remarked, “But he is committing his public order offences in the garda station.”

Judge McCarthy imposed a three-month suspended jail sentence and warned: “One more appearance before the court and he is going directly to prison.”

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