Cork woman left with metal plates in her jaw after violent assault by partner after night out

Victim was left with fractured jaw, fractured eye socket and broken nose, court told

Judge said: 'There is an absolute inevitability of a prison sentence here,' and remanded the defendant in custody until February 18. Picture: Dan Linehan

A woman returned home from a night’s drinking almost three years ago with her then partner, only to be violently attacked and left with a fractured jaw, fractured eye socket and broken nose.

Garda Aisling Brosnan described the violent nature of the attack at a sentencing hearing on Wednesday for 41-year-old Jonathan Kingsbury, formerly of Connolly Road, Ballyphehane, Cork, and more recently of Schull, Co Cork, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.