A BARRING ORDER was imposed in Naas District Court yesterday on a 26-year-old Kildare man alleged to have viciously assaulted his mother at her home over the weekend.
The distressed mother, with severe bruises all over her face and body, appeared at Naas District Court on Friday.
A few days prior to the horrific attack, the court heard how her son had pushed her against a wall while she was out in a county Kildare town.
She said: “He put his fist up to me when the guards had him in handcuffs.”
On the night of Friday 5 February, she went for a few drinks with her son.
She said:
When we got back to the apartment, he turned berserk. He was hitting me on the head, into my eyes.
Judge Desmond Zaidan asked if her nose was broken. She replied: “No it is not broken, I got a scan.”
In court, she took off her cardigan to reveal the worst of the bruising. One arm was covered in bruises.
She told the court how she attended Naas Hospital on Friday night and was released on Saturday.
The court heard that she is currently residing with her parents, as she feels unsafe returning to her home that she lives in with her 14-year-old daughter and has been a tenant in for the past two years.
Evidence was given that last Friday’s alleged assault was ‘the most severe’.
She said: “I did not do anything about the other assaults, I was giving him every chance. This was the worst.”
The court heard how the neighbours in an apartment below were alerted by the noise.
She said: ” I was saying, ‘Get off me, stop, stop, and as I said stop, he got worse’.”
“If the neighbours did not come, he could have killed you,” judge noted.
When Judge Zaidan asked for any possible motive behind the assault, she responded that he may have been taking drugs at the time.
She said that her son kept blaming her for being arrested days before, when he pushed her against a wall in the town.
Evidence was given that the 14-year-old daughter arrived when the incident was over and the gardaí were at the apartment.
Judge Zaidan said :
I am seriously concerned for her safety. If someone is capable of doing this to their own flesh and blood, my fear is that he will disregard the barring order.
Gardaí were ordered to monitor the apartment and ensure the woman is ‘kept safe’.
Judge Zaidan ordered the accused to appear at Naas District Court on 22 February, along with his mother.
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