Man ‘beat new wife in row over 2 transgenders’

Judge describes case as ‘abuse of process’

A BRIDE was beaten up by her groom on honeymoon in a row over transgender women, a court heard yesterday.

The woman told the Co Clare Family Court her new husband headbutted her and beat her up in their hotel room, leaving her with swelling around her eye and nose. She said: “I had bruises all over me. I had broken nails from trying to fight him off.” The woman said they had been drinking at a bar where her husband was looking at two women and she said they were transgender. She added: “I told him they are actually men and he instantly changed and said. ‘So you are calling me gay?’ and I told him, ‘I am not calling you gay’.” The woman said he continued to shout at her as they walked back to the hotel before “going crazy” and attacking her in their room. She admitted he had assaulted her in the years before they married in 2014 but told the court: “He was always sorry and used his own past for his reasons doing what he did. “I always forgave him because I always felt there was something good in him.” However, she left him after a year and said counselling had helped her to realise she had been “brainwashed” by him. The woman was seeking a Safety Order after a non-violent incident with her exhusband outside her home last December. But Ennis Court Judge Patrick Durcan said the incident was her fault, not the man’s, and noted she had subsequently invited him in. He ruled the application “a total abuse of process” and there was no case to answer.