2015-07-01
Jail for man who carried out two serious unprovoked assaults, including one on his friend
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: His friend had ended up on a life support for six weeks following an assault and Noonan had provided huge support to both his friend and that man's family. "He is a very strong man who was at the time prone to loosing control," Judge Nolan said before he added there was "long history of lapses of control causing him to behave aggressively and in a hostile way". "One assault to some degree is forgivable whereas two assaults with his history is totally unforgivable," Judge Nolan said before he jailed Noonan for three and half years.