Cork judge 'gobsmacked' at appeal by man convicted of attacking his ex in front of their children

The court heard that the woman's two infant children intervened and tried to protect their mother from the attack

The judge warned him that if there was any further difficulty in the two-year period of the suspension then he would serve the five months in jail. File picture

A middle-aged man violently attacked his ex-partner in her bedroom as their two infant children tried to protect her.

Judge Sinead Behan said she was "gobsmacked" at Cork Circuit Appeals Court to hear that the man was hoping for a dismissal under the Probation of Offenders Act in his appeal of the five-month sentence imposed on him at the district court.