A jury has been told in a coercive control trial that audio recordings made by a mother and her daughter will make for "difficult listening” in the trial.
In his opening remarks in the trial at Ennis Circuit Court of a 49-year-old Co Clare man, counsel for the State, Shane Costelloe SC has stated that it was a peculiar and "an unusual feature in such a case" where the complainant began to record on her mobile phone interactions between herself and her husband at a time when their marriage had irrevocably broken down.
Mr Costelloe said that the couple’s daughter also felt that it was a good idea to start recording on her mobile phone what was going on between her parents and the jury will also hear that audio evidence.
