Model avoids jail after assault on ex’s new partner

A glamour model has been given a two-month suspended sentence after she admitted she jumped on her ex-boyfriend’s new partner and began to bite and scratch her.

Bridget Byrne, aged 26, who works under the name of Ava Van Rose, appeared before Judge John Cheatle at Dublin District Court yesterday to have her case finalised. Byrne had pleaded guilty earlier to assault causing harm to Helen Guinan her at a house at Wheatfield Avenue in Clondalkin, in Dublin, on October 20, 2013.

Garda Gerard Clifford of Ronanstown Garda Station told Judge Cheatle that Ms Byrne has a child with Helen Guinan’s partner. There had been a row over their arrangements for the child to be collected.