Man hit woman who called him a paedophile
A twenty-four years old man who admitted striking a woman who called him a paedophile outside a bar in the Rosemount area of Derry earlier this year was yesterday given a conditional discharge for six months at the local Magistrate's Court.
Jonathan Taylor, of Cornshell Fields, pleaded guilty to assaulting the woman on January 1 last.
District Judge Harry Coll was told that the defendant and the woman had been drinking in the Village Inn where the two of them had exchanged words. The defendant met the woman after he left the premises to go to his cousin’s house.
“More words were exchanged; she called him a paedophile and he took exception to that,” a prosecution lawyer told the court. “He struck the injured party who sustained a swollen nose and bruising to her face,” he added.
Mr. Coll said he wasn’t surprised that the defendant had taken exception to being called a paedophile but he criticised him for hitting the woman.
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