Woman 'got slapped over the head with a crutch' in Cobh when protecting her husband

Her husband had tried to stop two men from fighting outside a Chinese restaurant in Cobh

Mr Tolea, who was on crutches at the time with a badly broken ankle, then started shouting, called Mr Johnston a racist and walked on his glasses which cost €128, according to a statement given by Mr Johnston.

A woman who was smashed across the face with a crutch said that she was “collateral damage” while trying to break up an altercation in a Cork seaside town.

Carol Johnston said that she came out of work in a Chinese restaurant in Cobh to find defendant Emmanuel Tolea "screaming and swinging his crutch at her husband". When she tried to intervene, she said she was hit across her face by the crutch.