A protection order did not stop a 36-year-old man sending 200 abusive and obscene text messages and videos to his ex-partner in 24 hours through Facebook and Instagram, it was alleged in court.<\/p>\n
The man who has no previous convictions was arrested and brought before an in camera hearing of Cork District Court to deal with the case under the Domestic Violence Act. He is charged with two counts of breaching the protection order.<\/p>\n
Sergeant Gear\u00f3id Davis outlined the background to the incidents which began when the parties encountered each other on a street in Cork on the bank holiday afternoon of Monday, October 27.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe injured party currently holds a valid protection order against her ex-partner. She has made a statement to Gardai in which she alleges that at approximately 4pm on the afternoon of October 27 she was driving through Cork and another vehicle began beeping at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen she looked in the rear-view mirror she instantly recognised the driver as her ex-partner who then drove up beside her and shouted through the window calling her a dirty rat and a whore.<\/p>\n
\u201cSubsequently, the injured party began receiving text messages, voice messages and video messages through Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn October 28 she received approximately over 200 messages, the content of which included abuse, calling her names such as tramp and whore, making a number of references to her, suggesting she should kill herself as well as pictures and a video of him masturbating,\u201d Sgt. Davis said.<\/p>\n
In an application for bail, defence solicitor Shane Collins-Daly said the accused was intoxicated at the time of the texts and video messages. He was upset at seeing someone else in the car with his ex-partner when they had the chance encounter.<\/p>\n
Mr Collins-Daly said: \u201cThey were clearly abusive, insulting and obscene but there were no threats made to her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The defendant said when he saw the person who was with his ex-partner he overreacted and went drinking straightaway. \u201cMy head went a little bad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Judge Mary Dorgan granted him bail on conditions, including one of having no contact of any kind, direct or indirect, with the complainant \u2014 a requirement that is also present in the protection order.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The case was put back until November 5 at Cork District Court. The bail is on his own bond of \u20ac750, of which \u20ac500 had to be lodged and an independent surety of \u20ac500 with \u20ac250 cash to be lodged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A protection order did not stop a 36-year-old man sending 200 abusive and obscene text messages and videos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,27,715,18,19,17,717],"class_list":{"0":"post-154308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-justice"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}