SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO STABBED WIFE IN CITY SHOP

Date Published: 21-Feb-2008

A 31 year old Lithuanian hotel worker who stabbed his wife in the neck, was given a five-month suspended sentence at Galway Circuit Criminal Court this week.Olegas Tiatovas, who returned from Lithuania to stand trial, had denied assaulting his wife, Geidre Tiatovas, causing her harm at the Amnesty International shop at 23 Middle Street, in the city on October 9, 2006.A jury was sworn in to hear evidence in the trial but the accused then pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of assault and the jury was discharged.Judge Raymond Groarke sentenced the accused to five months in prison which he suspended for two years.