CITY WOMAN GETS PRISON FOR ASSAULTING CURTAIN MAKER

Date Published: 05-Feb-2009

A 23 year old woman has been sentenced to five months in prison for assaulting a curtain-maker who was in the process of hanging curtains in her sitting room.Teresa Rigney of 105 Castlepark, Ballybane, denied at Galway District Court this week, assaulting Linda Smith, from Tuam, at her home in Ballybane on March 4 last.Hearing Rigney had 15 previous convictions - three of which were for assaults, Judge Mary Fahy directed that the matter be brought back before her court next Monday to consider reactivation of a previous sentence.She then sentenced Rigney to five months in prison for this latest assault and said she had some cheek to come to court and try and make a liar out of the victim.