Irish Examiner view: Vindication of the rights of a victim

Paul Moody arriving at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his sentence hearing. Picture: Collins Courts

As we know all too well by now, domestic abuse is not always physical. Coercive control is a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation, and intimidation or other abuse, used to harm, punish, or frighten a victim.

A vivid and gut-wrenching example of coercive control was played out in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court this week in a case in which a serving garda terrorised a woman with cancer almost to the point of suicide.