A man who twice slapped his eight-year-old daughter on the face in a city centre supermarket was jailed for eight months today.
After viewing CCTV footage of the assault, District Judge Barney McElholm described the incident as “quite frankly horrifying. This demands an immediate custodial sentence and it will be increased due to the domestic violence aggravator”.
The defendant, 52-year-old Seamus Mullan, from Foyle Park in Derry, had initially denied assaulting his daughter in the Tesco Strand Road supermarket last August 31 during a chance meeting with her and her mother, Mullan’s ex-partner. Even after viewing CCTV footage of the incident, Mullan continued to deny the offence before he eventually pleaded guilty.
