Aaron Eccles and Niall Brooks sentenced for Tallaght robbery

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Aaron Eccles and Niall Brooks were sentenced for robbery at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 11 December 2015. Both received five-and-a-half-year sentences for robbing Charles Goromonzi’s phone in Tallaght, with 18 months suspended for Eccles and three years and nine months suspended for Brooks.

The teenagers had pleaded guilty to robbing a Nokia Lumina 625 phone at Sundale Heights on 29 July 2014. CCTV showed Mr Goromonzi being punched, kicked, kneed, stamped on and stabbed during the attack.

Judge Martin Nolan described the violence as depressing and ordered 18 months of post-release supervision for both men. Brooks had no previous convictions, while Eccles had 29 previous convictions.