A DOMESTIC violence offender described as a “Jekyll and Hyde” character has been jailed for seven months after smashing a backyard fence and again door at his household house.
he accused (34) brought on the injury on the north Dublin home the place his companion and youngsters lived, a court docket heard.
Choose Treasa Kelly sentenced him after listening to he had 191 earlier convictions, courting again 20 years.
The person pleaded responsible to breaching a safety order and inflicting legal injury on December 16 final yr.
The accused, who was already serving a sentence for different prices was in custody when he appeared in Dublin District Court docket.
A garda stated the accused broke the rear backyard fence to get in and proceeded to smash the again door of the home.
He didn’t reside there on the time, was trespassing and was not welcome, the prosecuting garda stated. He was gone by the point gardaí arrived.
The accused had earlier convictions for offences together with assaulting a garda.
He had a “lengthy historical past going again many, a few years” and would have been a daily court docket attender at one stage however that settled down, his solicitor Edward Bradbury stated.
He had a historical past of drink-related public order offending.
“He’ll settle for that he has a drink downside in all probability, at some stage or different”, however he additionally had a problem with tablets that had been offered on the streets, Mr Bradbury stated.
The accused had a relapse round Christmas, the court docket heard. What occurred was an unlucky incident ensuing from a “slip”.
The accused was a “Jekyll and Hyde character” who was troublesome to take care of when he was intoxicated however when he was not, he was a “gentleman”, Mr Bradbury stated.
He understood that what occurred was not acceptable and he was greater than apologetic, he was embarrassed. The legal injury associated to his own residence and he was ashamed of what he had executed.
Mr Bradbury stated it was hoped it was the “final sting of a dying wasp” after the accused’s lengthy legal previous.
The accused was already serving a seven-month sentence arising from an identical incident the place there was a garda assault conviction as a result of he resisted arrest.
He was due out of jail in July. Choose Kelly made the seven-month sentence concurrent.