Cork judge bemoans 'women battering women' cases

Due to a conflict of evidence and no witnesses in court to corroborate the women’s accounts of the violence, Judge Roberts said it would be unsafe to convict in the case

Midleton District Court heard the comments from a Cork judge recently. File picture

Women have been perpetrators in the majority of assault cases a Cork judge has seen in his court recently.

Judge Colm Roberts made the comments after throwing out a case in which two female neighbours were involved in a brawl after one called the other a “tramp” or a “slut” and allegedly threated to “smash” her neighbour’s “brains in”.