Man 'beat crap' out of ex-fiancée

A FATHER of four "beat the crap" out of his ex-fiancée a few months after serving a jail sentence for attacking her previously, a court has heard.

- TOM TUITE

Kevin Bardon, 37, of Grange Crescent, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to the woman on December 4, 2023.

Judge Keenan Johnson heard how gardaí were dispatched to the woman's home in Mullingar and saw the victim in an emotional state and "bleeding heavily from the back of her head".

The woman's hair was wet from bleeding. She had a cut and swelling to the left side of her forehead, swelling and bruising beneath her left eye and a cut on the right eye.