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Judge Mary Devins this week convicted a Castlebar man of assaulting his partner and sentenced him to three months in prison, with the warrant for his committal not to come into effect until January 12, 2011. However Judge Devins said that she was in a position of having to make a judgment on the assault on behalf of the people of Ireland as the person who was assaulted refused to make a complaint.

A father of two, who was observed by gardaí to assault his partner in their house, pleaded not guilty to assaulting her and also denied assaulting a garda who entered the house to deal with the violent situation.