Man who fled Nigeria remanded after assault on ex-girlfriend

A Nigerian national who claimed he escaped to Ireland after finding five members of his family murdered in their home has been remanded for sentence for assaulting his estranged girlfriend and mother of their child.

Olatunbosun Salawu (aged 21), Clonliffe Road, Ballybough also allegedly tried to hang himself in his Dublin apartment after he assaulted the woman but was saved by a friend and taken to hospital.