The man told the court he believed that his wife was trying 'to get rid of me from the house'. Photograph: Collins
A woman who said she is “terrified” to sleep in the same bed as her husband because he is “threatening to rape me”, has got a one-year barring order against him.
“He says it is not rape because I am his wife,” the woman told the emergency domestic violence court at Dolphin House in Dublin on Friday.
The woman and man, Judge Gerard Furlong heard, are married more than 20 years and have two adult children.
The woman said she suffered numerous incidents of violence, or threats of violence, during their marriage and twice fled with their the
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