Cork man who punched and threatened to bury ex-girlfriend jailed

Man with previous convictions for assaults threw a lighter at his ex-girlfriend’s forehead

The accused had three convictions for assault causing harm and eight for causing criminal damage.

A man with previous convictions for assaults and making death threats threw a Zippo-style lighter at his ex-girlfriend’s forehead, punched her in the ribs, and threatened to bury her.

“Michael Galvin threatened to throw her in a septic tank to shut her mouth and bury her,” Garda Cathal Power testified at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.