2024-07-19
'Menace to society' jailed for threatening to stab pregnant bookies worker
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Finding: Found guilty
Outcome: Found guilty; Anthony Kelly (64) of South Richmond Street, Dublin 2, who had six months of his sentence suspended to "encourage further rehabilitation", was found guilty following a trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in February of assault causing harm to a woman on April 14, 2019 in the Blackhall Place area of Dublin. Det Gda Harrington agreed with Derek Cooney BL, defending, that Kelly was intoxicated when arrested and his detention had to be suspended for a number of hours.