A woman who took part in a “crime of passion” in which her friend broke into the home of the new lover of her friend's former partner has been given a suspended sentence.
Elaine Emmett accompanied her friend to the house of her friend's ex's new girlfriend and stood by as the other woman smashed the door in with a golf club before dragging the victim around by the hair and smashing up her oven.
The man in question remained in an upstairs bedroom throughout the incident, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard yesterday.
