Women’s Aid’ inundated’ with calls after soldier sentence, DPP to Appeal the Suspended Sentence. Miss O Brien, feels so let down, by the Courts, and Rightly so?

A domestic abuse charity has said it has been “absolutely inundated” with calls from people distressed at the suspended sentence given to a serving soldier who beat a woman unconscious in Limerick two years ago.

Cathal Crotty, 22, of Parkroe Heights, Ardnacrusha, Co Clare, had initially tried to blame the victim, 24-year-old Natasha O’Brien, by wrongly telling gardaí who arrested him that she had instigated the attack on O’Connell Street in Limerick on 29 May 2022.

Natasha O’Brien said it was “not justice” after Crotty walked free from court after being given a fully suspended sentence.