'No apology is strong enough': Jail for man who kidnapped his former partner

A man who kidnapped his former partner after she had left him at the end of a violent relationship has been given a seven year sentence with the final two years suspended.

The Westmeath man was convicted by a Central Criminal Court jury of false imprisonment of the woman in November 2015 following a trial last December. He later admitted assaulting her on three occasions while she was pregnant with their children between 2011 and 2015.