Meg Walsh told gardaí husband had assaulted her

A woman whose husband is on trial for her murder made a complaint to gardaí about him less than two weeks before her disappearance a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

Sergeant Eric Gavigan told prosecuting counsel Mr Denis Vaughan Buckley that Meg Walsh called in to Waterford Garda Station on September 22nd 2006 and informed him that her husband had assaulted her two days before hand.