O’Shane back with husband after split: [1 All-round Country Edition]
Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 May 2005: 6.
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A court-imposed 12-month apprehended violence order against Ms O’Shane forbidding her from stalking, assaulting or intimidating Mr [Allan Coles], another woman and two juveniles now appears to be behind the couple.
Mr Coles wrote to police requesting that the charge and an apprehended violence order he took out against her be withdrawn, but the AVO remained regardless. Ms [Pat O’Shane] took leave, but was back hearing cases by last November. She is prevented from hearing domestic violence cases until the AVO against her expires in October.
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PROMINENT NSW magistrate Pat O’Shane is back living with her husband Allan Coles.
A court-imposed 12-month apprehended violence order against Ms O’Shane forbidding her from stalking, assaulting or intimidating Mr Coles, another woman and two juveniles now appears to be behind the couple.
“We’re back living together,” Mr Coles said when contacted by The Australian at the couple’s home in Sydney’s harbourside Hunters Hill.
“We haven’t talked about that for a long time,” the 77-year-old said about the AVO.
Last October, Mr Coles dropped an assault charge against Ms O’Shane brought when she allegedly confronted him with a knife on September 17 after discovering he was having an affair.
Ms O’Shane is known for her hardline views on domestic violence.
Mr Coles wrote to police requesting that the charge and an apprehended violence order he took out against her be withdrawn, but the AVO remained regardless. Ms O’Shane took leave, but was back hearing cases by last November. She is prevented from hearing domestic violence cases until the AVO against her expires in October.
In an interview with The Bulletin magazine in February, Ms O’Shane admitted to suffering a breakdown and spending time in a clinic after discovering her husband’s infidelity.
But she left open the possibility they might reconcile, saying they were again on speaking terms and she was hoping he might return to her.
“If he doesn’t want to come back into the relationship and resume living in the house with me, that’s the end of the marriage,” she said.
“I’ll say fine, write it off to experience. And if he does I’ll say good, and work at making it better.”