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Derry Magistrate's Court
A woman has been given a suspended sentence at Derry Magistrate's Court today for assaulting her father.
Courtney Temple (21) of Jefferson Court in Derry admitted assaulting her father om November 20 last year.
The court was told that police received a 999 call from Temple's father.
They responded and spoke to the father and he said his daughter had come to his house and was 'causing a nuisance'.
He said he believed she was intoxicated and then she slapped him on the side of the face before he asked her to leave.
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Defence counsel Sinead Rogan said that Temple deserved credit for her guilty plea.
She said that there had been no injury as such in what she described as 'an unfortunate incident' and said the parties had reconciled.
District Judge Oonagh Mullan said that the defendant had 'quite a record for common assaults' and imposed a sentence of two months suspended for 12 months.
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