2016-10-24
Teen took "running kicks" at St Patrick's Day volunteers
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Niall Brooks (19) "left his victims for dead" after he and another teenager took part in the unprovoked assault at the Luas station in Tallaght last year. "What you committed was nothing short of a vile, barbaric and cowardly assault on two absolutely innocent people," Judge O'Callaghan told Brooks today at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, as he sentenced him to three years' imprisonment with the final six months suspended. "There was nothing done or said by these innocent people which warranted you even looking at them crooked, never mind what you did to them." The attacks left the victims with Earlier this month, Brooks' co-accused, Dean McKeever (19) of no fixed abode, was jailed for three years for his part in the St Patrick's Day assault.