*The woman also secured a Protection Order.
A JUDGE has granted a man a domestic violence Protection Order against his wife after he lifted his top in court to show a two inch mark on his chest from a knife.
The man alleged in court that his wife had ‘scraped’ his chest with a knife during a row at home.
In response to Judge Alec Gabbett asking the man did his wife hurt him when she took the knife to him, the man lifted his top to show the two inch knife mark.
Judge Gabbett commented, “a picture paints a thousand words”.
In his statement seeking the Protection Order the man said that during an argument at home a number of days ago, my wife “took out a knife and scraped me down my chest with it”.
Judge Gabbett told the man that his wife has also secured a Protection Order against him and Judge Gabbett said that the woman has alleged in her statement that “he hit me and tried to set the house on fire. I am terrified for myself and my daughter”.
Judge Gabbett said, “She is saying you are physical with her and you are saying she took a knife to you”.
Asked by Judge Gabbett is he afraid of her, the man replied “not very scared”.
Granting the Protection Order to the man Judge Gabbett commented that “there is no harm in the two of you having a Protection Order in the circumstances”.
In a separate case, Judge Gabbett has granted a Protection Order to a woman after she told Judge Gabbett that her husband called her a bad mother two weeks after having their new baby and has threatened to take their baby out of the country.
In her statement seeking the protection order, the Asian woman said that met her Eastern European husband on the Internet.
The woman said that the two now have a baby but her husband is always calling her bad words, like “a bad mother and a prostitute”. She said that she is scared of him.
The woman said, “He told me that two weeks after the baby was born that I am not a good mother”.
She said, “He told Gardai I stole the baby and a Garda came to me because of what he said”.
Judge Gabbett said, “Don’t be listening to him. That is all nonsense”.
