10 years prison for coercive control.

[magicstar1]

I just saw this on the news...the poor woman went through a horrific time. He even called her from prison to tell her not to prosecute.
I hope she gets her life back now.

www.rte.ie/news/courts/2021/0121/1191169-coercive-control-court/

He should have been charged with attempted murder. That wasn't just coercive control, was it?

Poor woman.
At least this sounds like a case where doctors, police and the justice system have behaved appropriately.

Utterly horrifying case. I really hope this poor woman has all the support she needs. At least it's a meaningful sentence.

A lot of people were looking on with interest to see the sentence from Judge Sheahan. Great work by the prosecutor too! And of course a very brave lady to report and follow through.

Someone i know in the legal world told me today that they judgement is excellently written and should allow absolutely no wriggle room for an appeal. I hope they are right.

@UrsulaVdL

Chief Superintendent Finbar Murphy warned other domestic violence offenders to stop the abuse and get help because they would be prosecuted.

I am 50 years old and this is the first time I have heard a man tell other men not to be abusive. It’s so so unusual.

I was struck by a very similar thought.

That was indeed way more than coercive control, I agree, @HollowTalk. It's possible that coercive control was easier to prove than any assault charge or attempted murder. Maybe that's why he got the 10 years.

This really jumped out though:
The judge said that if the doctors who saw the woman's injuries had not intervened and contacted gardaí, after she had been admitted to hospital for the 20th time, the abuse would have continued.

She was admitted to hospital 19 times and no questions were asked?

He burned, punched, head-butted, stamped on and attempted to strangle her and nobody looked at the litany of prior admissions with all the evidence of what had been done to her and wondered why she was so accident prone?

Something is seriously wrong with all of that.

Hanging would be better as cannot commit any crime like it again