Cork man told wife: 'I’d bate the shit out of you if you were a man', court hears

'He called me a fat, ugly thing, a retard and a spastic – over a picture that wasn’t even there,' woman testified at in-camera sitting of Cork District Court

Judge Olann Kelleher said regarding the allegation of breaching a protection order, he was not satisfied the evidence reach the threshold to convict so he dismissed the case.

A Cork woman claimed her husband put her in fear by calling her names and shouting at her – “I’d bate the shit out of you if you were a man.” 

The woman, who is in her 30s, also said the defendant blamed her for tearing up a family photograph in the kitchen that she said was not even in the room.