A Cork woman has described being left in terror after her ex-partner raped her after threatening to cut her fingers off with a garden secateurs.
At the man’s sentence hearing at the Central Criminal Court today, the woman described how she had stayed in a “toxic relationship” for 18 years for the sake of her children, who she loves dearly.
The couple separated in 2019 but remained living together with their children. On the evening August 2, 2019 the woman had come home from work when the man showed her the secateurs, grabbed her hand and told her that he would cut ….read more