Posted by A man who treated wife ‘like a servant’ jailed for six months and ordered to pay own costsA man who treated his long-suffering wife “like a servant” has been jailed for six months and ordered to pay his lawyers’ costs.
The court heard that he drank his wages away leaving her to pay the bills and “repeatedly told her to her face to die”.
There was no mention of violence or threats in today’s hearing.On the day he was due to go on trial last month, Kevin McAleese entered a guilty plea to a single charge of domestic abuse in that for two and a half years from February 1, 2022, until 12 August last year, the 62-year-old subjected his wife to a course of behaviour which caused her to “suffer physical or psychological harm.”
Originally dealt with in the Magistrates Court, McAleese, from Maxwells Road in Kells, was handed a six-month jail sentence but freed on bail pending appeal of the sentence.The judge also heard how McAleese “became abusive when she does not have his work clothing washed and ironed to his standard” and despite her attempts to separate from him and “set him up with a flat,” he returned to the matrimonial home and continued the abuse.“There was complete and utter denial of the prosecution case which is of course utter nonsense,” declared the judge.
“To tell your wife repeatedly to her face to die and to f*** off back to Scotland, treated like a servant with no contribution to household bills and drinking your money….simply is not acceptable,” said Judge Devlin as he affirmed the six-month prison sentence.
The judge also declined to grant legal aid, ruling that McAleese “earns money for drink so he can pay for his own lawyers.”
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