Overview
- Judge John Alymer said Adeleke Adelani’s conduct amounted to an extreme act of physical and emotional violence.
- The court heard he forced the woman to swallow five abortion tablets and locked her in a room on 14 February 2020 in Letterkenny, Co Donegal.
- He told her he would beat her nine‑week‑old foetus out of her if she refused to take the pills.
- The woman called gardaí when he left to buy a pregnancy test, and officers arrested him at the house at about 2.20pm that day.
- Gardaí had seized his phone at the time of arrest, and investigators accessed it shortly before trial, after which he pleaded guilty.