A woman who was subjected to two attacks by her partner in the space of six weeks has said she was so afraid in the aftermath of the beatings that she slept with an axe beside her bed.
Kim Kelly was first beaten by Ian McCluskey (54) in his home after she said she could not lend him any money. Six weeks later, he and his friend David Corr (41) assaulted her again after referring to the earlier assault charges. Corr called her a “rat” during that second attack.
Ms Kelly couldn’t recall the details of what started McCluskey’s first attack on her but told gardaí she was knocked to the ground and then had “feet coming down on top of me like Riverdance”.
