Tue, 09 May, 2023 - 16:30
A judge has told a businessman that he is ‘delusional’ after he made ‘dreadful’ allegations that his ex-partner was a member of a ‘swingers’ sex club.
At a Family Law District Court, Judge Mary Larkin granted the woman a two-year safety order against her ex-partner after she said that the 80 text messages he sent her in one night constituted ‘harassment’ on his part.
Judge Larkin dismissed a safety order application that the man had made against his ex-partner after he told the court that he wasn’t in fear of her.
Solicitor for the woman, Frank Doherty, said that part of the man's grounds for seeking the safety order were “false allegations” that his client had pressured him to join swingers’ parties.
Judge Larkin said that the businessman “is persisting in saying that she is a sex addict and doing this, that, and the other. I don’t really care about that — that doesn’t sway my mind one bit.”
She pointed out to the court that the woman has a young child with the man and also works full-time.
Judge Larkin said: “Good luck to her if she has time for loads of sex but I am saying that it is highly unlikely.”
In evidence, the woman denied that she was ever in a swingers’ club and the man's false allegations had dragged her name through the mud in her local community.
The couple split up last year because of the man’s cocaine problem and he admitted to Judge Larkin that he was spending 600 some weeks on the drug.
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