Violent attacks by women is on the increase and the story below is another sad story about the breakdown in society with two cousins attacking their uncle and his partner in front of their young children.
What is of particular concern is the frenzied attack using the heels on their shoes which were used as weapons.
The Irish Independent report:
Cousins jailed for ‘barbaric’ stiletto attack
Sonya McLean – Irish Independent
Two cousins who launched a “barbaric” attack on their uncle and his partner were jailed yesterday.
Philomena (22) and Ethel Whitehouse (27) attacked Paula Hoey with their stilettos, slashing her upper lip and ripped off her top and bra, while she and her partner, Shane Whitehouse, were walking in Balbriggan, north Dublin, with their five- and three-year-old boys one Sunday afternoon.
Wound
Mr Whitehouse was left with a puncture wound to his scalp after he tried to protect Ms Hoey.
Judge Patrick McCartan described the assault as an act of “barbarism” in a public street, in which Ms Hoey was “left naked on the side of the street”. He said she and Mr Whitehouse were left with multiple injuries and their children in tears.
Philomena and Ethel, both from Balbriggan, denied the charges and claimed that they were acting in the defence of Ethel’s 14-year-old sister.
They were remanded in custody after a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury convicted them of assault last month following a two-day trial.
Sergeant David Campbell told Gerardine Small, prosecuting, that Ms Hoey had been shot since the verdict. He agreed that as both accused had been on remand in custody neither could have been responsible for the shooting and accepted “it is obviously a very distinct and separate incident”.
Philomena, of Pinewood Green Court, was found guilty of assaulting Ms Hoey and Mr Whitehouse causing them harm on Drogheda Street in the town on October 2, 2005. Ethel, of Pinewood Green Crescent, was found guilty of assaulting Ms Hoey causing her harm on the same date. They received three-year sentences with 18 months suspended.Sgt Campbell said a medical report stated that Ms Hoey had to attend a plastic surgeon to repair the slash wound to her lip and had been left with a permanent scar. She also had multiple cuts to her back, chest and shoulders. Mr Whitehouse had a puncture wound in his scalp, back and arm.
Nightmares
A victim impact statement said Ms Hoey lived in constant fear and suffered nightmares, while her eldest son did not speak for days after the assault and was now undergoing counselling.
Judge McCartan said both women claimed that they happened to be passing by when the 14-year-old was attacked and went to help but added “they were simply not believed by the jury”.
He described the testimonies as “play acting” and said their crying and sobbing before the jury was “a complete put-on”.
Judge McCartan noted that the matter arose out of a “family history” which has still not been settled.
i witnessed these ppl! doing these sort of things.its not just the two who got jail its also there mothers and other sisters they are not human and should be banished from this country they have a whole town in fear of them. crazy i know to think a crowd of women would have it in them to do this and be able to get away with it for so long.its been going on now for 4 years the victims and the family of the victims have suffered terrable abuse for years because of these ppl! name and shame them all, for what they’ve done to this community thats what i say!!!!!!!!!
Very sad how they have destroyed the good name of your home town.
I hope the law sort them and theirs out.
shay the victims were from the same family so if your feeling sorry for them you shouldn’t say in the same paragraph banish the entire family from the country also their mothers and sisters were not locked they were arrested and takin in for questioning they haven’t been locked up or anything like it