Meg Walsh told gardaí of assault by husband

TWO weeks before she disappeared Meg Walsh told gardaí she had been assaulted by her husband, who is now on trial for her murder at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.

Sergeant Eric Gavigan told prosecuting counsel Denis Vaughan Buckley that Meg Walsh called in to Waterford Garda Station on September 22, 2006, and informed him that her husband had assaulted her two days before.

Bus driver John O’Brien, aged 41, with an address in Ballinakill Downs, Co Waterford, denies murdering the 35-year-old mother of one on a date between October 1, 2006, and October 15, 2006.