A young man has appeared in court charged with taking off his belt and hitting a woman with a metal buckle during an assault in Co Donegal.
Larry McCarthy appeared before Letterkenny District Court charged with a series of alleged offences in Letterkenny on August 16th last.
The 20-year-old is charged with a number of incidents while he was allegedly drunk at Lower Main Street in the town.
He is charged that he did while committing an offence, to wit, assault causing harm in the course of a dispute produce in a manner likely unlawfully to intimidate another person an article capable of inflicting serious injury, to wit, a belt with a metal buckle.
Garda Sergeant Gerard Dalton told the court that McCarthy did not know the victim on the night in question.
He revealed how Gardai arrived at the scene of a disturbance and saw McCarthy put his face into the woman’s face in a headbutt gesture.
The woman pushed him back and he then took off his belt and allegedly struck her in the chest with the metal buckle.
McCarthy is also charged with being intoxicated on the same night as well as engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting words likely to cause a breach of the peace as well as assaulting the woman.
The accused, of Cornmarket Villas, Little Gerald Street in Limerick, was not present in court for the case.
Having heard an initial list of the charges, Judge Eiteain Cunningham said she was refusing jurisdiction in the case.
She adjourned the case until December 9th for directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions.