A 34-year-old gravedigger from Dublin has been jailed for twelve-and-a-half years for killing his girlfriend at her home in Coolock in July 2017.Martin Hayes.
The sister of a woman who was killed by a "deranged monster" who had beaten, threatened and controlled his victim during their relationship has called for stricter laws on coercive control and domestic abuse.
A "sick, twisted and deranged monster" who claimed that his partner deliberately stabbed herself to death was today addressed directly by his victim's three sisters, one of whom shouted at him: "You are a coward, an active predator and an abuser of women. You hide against your insecurities through your fists".
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