Nigerian man given three years for strangling wife

A Nigerian man who told his estranged wife "I'll kill you and get two years in prison" while strangling her has been jailed for three years by Judge Martin Nolan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Iyobosa Asemota was sitting on his wife with his hands around her neck when gardaí found her unconscious with dilated pupils and foam coming out of her mouth. She was rushed to hospital.