Man accused of assaulting and injuring woman in apartment on Christmas Day
A MAN has been accused of assaulting and injuring a woman who was found in a Clondalkin apartment suffering injuries including an alleged knife wound to her face.
Andrew Lindsay was in an intoxicated state when he was arrested after the alleged assault on Christmas Day, gardai claimed.
Blanchardstown District Court
Judge David McHugh said he will need more information on the woman’s injuries before he can consider the issue of jurisdiction, and adjourned the case at Blanchardstown District Court.
Mr Lindsay, aged 31, with an address at Whitestown Gardens, Blanchardstown, is charged with assault causing harm to the woman at Aras na Cluaine, Clondalkin on December 25, 2019.
Sergeant Walter Sweeney said the DPP consented to summary trial of the case in the district court.
Outlining the allegations, he said a woman caller to Dublin Fire Brigade on the date in question was “hysterical” and said a “male had a knife”.
There was shouting in the background on the call and the woman indicated that her face was bruised, Sgt Sweeney said.
Gardai arrived at the ground floor apartment and saw that the woman had injuries to her face, and that there were “knives and blood on the ground”.
The accused’s details were circulated and he was later arrested “in an intoxicated state”, on suspicion of assault causing harm.
He was brought to Clondalkin Garda Station, where he was detained. A medical report was submitted to the court.
Judge McHugh asked Sgt Sweeney for more information about the allegation of a knife injury to the woman’s face.
Sgt Sweeney said the document from the prosecuting garda “doesn’t describe the attack in too much detail”.
Reading the medical report, Judge McHugh said it referred to the alleged victim being pushed against the wall and suffering head injuries, as well as a wound to her lip. It also referred to an “assault to the face with a knife”.
This was the matter of concern to the court, he said. He could not proceed without knowing the nature of the alleged knife injury.
He told defence solicitor Terence Hanahoe he could not make progress as he needed to know “the exact nature of the alleged injury to the injured party’s face”.
He adjourned the case to February 18.
Mr Hanahoe asked for statements to be submitted to the defence before that date.
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