Cork woman attacked other woman in pub in row over phone

Accused borrowed phone to text her boyfriend and then assaulted complainant and smashed phone after accusing her of reading text, court heard

Injured party told court: 'I was good enough to give her my phone. I gave her my phone out of the good of my heart and she got very aggressive. Picture: Larry Cummins

A Cork woman in a pub gave another woman a loan of her phone — “out of the good of my heart” — to text her boyfriend but the woman then pulled a clump of hair out of her head and smashed the phone because she believed the phone owner was reading the text.

Shannon Frayne, who is aged about 30, of Dunmore Gardens, Knocknaheeny, Cork, denied charges of assault and causing criminal damage but Judge Marian O’Leary convicted her and said she will sentence her at Cork District Court on May 31.