Man who assaulted woman and threatened to tell police she cut him ‘very lucky’, says Judge

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Man who assaulted woman and threatened to tell police she cut him ‘very lucky’, says Judge

A man who assaulted a woman and threatened to tell police she cut him if she told has been branded “very lucky” by a Judge, who jailed him for five months. District Judge Francis Rafferty, sentencing Brian Bernard Gavin (30), at a hearing before Craigavon Magistrates Court, said his “hands were tied” by the limitations on sentencing in Magistrates’ Courts. The defendant, of no fixed abode, appeared before the court via videolink from Maghaberry,…