The Central Criminal Court has ordered an arrest warrant after a man who attempted to murder his wife 12 years ago allegedly breached the terms of his release by trying to contact his victim.
Lounes Ouachek had admitted trying to murder his wife by beating her with a kettlebell after becoming resentful of her independence.
Det Sgt Mary Fitzpatrick on Monday told the court that Lounes Ouachek had failed to appear in court despite being notified of his requirement to be present.
Mr Justice Paul McDermott made an order for the arrest warrant.
Lounes Ouachek (54), formerly of St Dominic's Terrace, Tallaght, Dublin 24, pleaded guilty in 2014 at the Central Criminal Court to the attempted murder of Ruta Ouachek at that address on August 23rd 2012.
He was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment with the final three suspended by Mr Justice Paul Carney on July 21st 2014. The Court of Appeal later reduced his sentence to 15 years with the final four suspended.
At a previous hearing Garret McCormack BL, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, said one of the conditions set by Mr Justice Carney in 2014 was that there be no contact between Ouachek and his wife "in perpetuity".
The 2014 sentencing hearing was told that Algerian national Ouachek had met his wife, a Lithuanian national, in Germany in 2000. They got married a year later and moved to Ireland in 2005.
Following the birth of their daughter in 2007, Ms Ouachek entered full time education and the defendant – a devout muslim, the court heard - “developed a resentment of his wife's new-found independence” and the little time she was spending at home.
Ouachek took his daughter to Algeria but was subsequently persuaded to return by his wife.
He had legally separated from his wife when he began "stalking" her and breached an interim barring order
The sentencing hearing in 2014 heard that Ouachek, an Algerian national, had legally separated from his wife when he began "stalking" her and breached an interim barring order by calling to her home.
He demanded that she return various items, including a kettlebell, but then attacked her using the kettlebell as a weapon.
She managed to make her way into the bathroom where she locked herself in and was found later by gardaí covered in blood and seriously injured.
Ms Ouachek had fractures to her skull and facial bones and was later transferred to Beaumont Hospital.
After he tried to kill his wife, Ouachek left the house, pulled the blinds and locked the door before driving her car to Dublin airport.
He flew to Tunisia via Paris without telling anyone that his wife lay injured in a pool of blood for nine hours and was subsequently arrested in Germany on foot on an extradition warrant.
