Overview
- Judge Dermot Sheehan imposed a nine-year term with the final 12 months suspended, leaving an effective eight years in custody.
- A 12-year order prohibits any direct or indirect contact with the victim.
- The court heard that Noel Twomey poured boiling water on his sleeping wife and struck her with a claw hammer, causing second-degree burns over 11% of her body, a head injury and lasting psychological trauma.
- Defence said it could not secure a psychiatric report and relied on a brief medical note citing depression, past psychosis after fits and autism.
- Twomey pleaded guilty to two counts of assault causing harm and producing a claw hammer, and he was arrested near his home on 15 January 2024 after the attack.