*The man was before the Family Law Court for a third alleged Protection Order breach.
A JUDGE has told a man who falsely accused his wife of having an affair “to stop charging around the house like a bull”.
At the Family Law Court in Ennis, Judge Alec Gabbett said that the man will end up being remanded in custody for an alleged breach of a Protection Order his estranged wife has obtained against him.
Judge Gabbett told the man, in his mid fifties that this is the third alleged breach of the Protection Order before the court.
The couple have children together and Gardaí objected to bail as this was the third alleged breach of the Protection Order this year.
In relation to the latest breach on February 25th, the court heard it will be alleged that the woman received an email from her husband alleging that she was having an affair with another man.
This was after the husband allegedly accessed his wife’s phone records but the phone number he was alleging she was having an affair with in fact belonged to her solicitor who she had been communicating with in relation to family law matters.
Judge Gabbett said that the husband in this case also has a Protection Order against his estranged wife.
The man’s other two alleged breaches of the Protection Order obtained by his wife concerned verbally abusing his wife at the family home and putting her in fear.
Judge Gabbett told the man, “One or both will end up in custody, she has breaches against her too”.
Judge Gabbett asked, “What if both ended up in prison what would happen to the children? This is total messing, who will end up in prison first?”
Judge Gabbett told the man, “This man is not getting it”.
The man is represented in the case by solicitor, Colum Doherty.
Judge Gabbett told the man, “These orders mean that you go into your bedroom, you close the curtains. You pull up the duvet at night and you stay quiet and you don’t be charging around the house like a bull and not be making allegations like this against your partner”.
“This is so you can live peacefully together, I don’t know what you are missing but you are missing something. You are going to end up remanded in custody. That is the problem”.
Judge Gabbett said to the man, “People like you end up in prison because of this”.
Judge Gabbett told the man that “you have to be very careful – you may have to move out of the house”.
Judge Gabbett told the man that he would be reluctantly granting bail telling him “this is your last chance”.
