Jail for man who pulled wire around wife's neck

A man who pulled a computer wire around his former wife’s neck as she pleaded with him not to kill her has been given an three-and-a-half year sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

David Keegan (aged 45) of Corbally Park, Westbrook Glen, Tallaght, pleaded guilty to assaulting Suzanne Keegan causing her harm on October 8, 2007 at his then home in Clondalkin. The couple are now separated.