Woman sleeps with ladder against door because of 'out of control husband,' Kildare court told
‘I rang the gardaí and they took him out of the house’
A woman sleeps with a step ladder against the bedroom door - to keep her husband out.
This was the allegation she made at a Naas District Court sitting, which was not attended by husband who also wasn’t legally represented.
The woman said that a safety order has been in place since late November but she said he had breached this four times and his "drinking and verbal abuse is out of control.”
She also claimed that the previous Saturday she rang the gardaí and “they took him out of the house” and he was released from custody on the following Monday.
She said she had only returned home on Saturday when “he came in with a bag of cans of beer.”
She told Judge Desmond Zaidan: “I can’t take it anymore.”
Solicitor Anne Marie Maher said the man had threatened to kill the woman and “she is living in fear in her own home.”
Sgt Dave Hanrahan said the man has been charged and subsequently granted bail.
Judge Zaidan said it is the function of the gardaí to deal with a breach of an order.
He declined to grant a new order but pointed out that the original order remains in place until June.