2025-03-19
'Danger to society' further jailed for head-butting cemetery flower seller
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Orla Crowe set a headline sentence of three years and suspended the final year of it on strict conditions. She directed the two year sentence is to run consecutive to the sentence Melia is currently serving. "This was a horrible assault on a man who for 40 years had a flower stand outside a cemetery," said the judge. "That is a really important and sensitive role that this man was doing in society," she added.