A violent criminal who attempted to murder his then partner when she was 32 weeks pregnant shouted: "I'll rip her out of you," as he kicked her repeatedly in the stomach, the Central Criminal Court heard.
Dean Paget, 36, pleaded guilty to attempting to murder his former partner Lisa Ward and accepted the facts in relation to a charge of intentionally ending the life of a foetus - his own unborn child. In a statement written by Ms Ward and read out at Paget's sentencing hearing on Monday, the victim said: "All I ever wanted was my little girl, Ruby Rose. I’m only 32 and I don’t know how I'm going to face life with the effect this has had on me."
Ruby Rose, Ms Ward said, was a "beautiful little girl and I know she will always be by my side". She said she wanted Paget to "pay for everything that he has done," and added: "I want him done for what he did to my little girl." At the sentencing hearing, Detective Garda Grainne Collier showed the court CCTV footage showing the assaults on Ms Ward as she and the accused walked along Dame Street towards their tent on Montague Lane in Dublin in the early hours of Sunday, April 25, 2021.
