A probation report placed him at high risk of reoffending in relation to emotional abuse and coercive control. The Central Criminal Court heard how when the man and woman met, she was vulnerable, having suffered a significant bereavement. He pleaded guilty to assault causing harm, threats to kill or cause serious harm, coercive control and threats to publish intimate images without consent on dates between April and December 2022. The court heard the man told gardaí he was “hot-headed” and while he never sent the images he accepted he had said he would. The man accepted in Garda interview he had sent threatening messages, but said he would never have carried them out.
