Belinda Daly’s two-year sentence for assault fully suspended

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Belinda Daly was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended in full for three years, after pleading guilty to assault causing harm to her neighbour in Crumlin. Judge Orla Crowe also ordered Daly not to contact her former neighbour.

The attack took place in the victim’s front garden on Windmill Avenue on February 28, 2021. CCTV showed Daly reaching over a garden wall and grabbing her neighbour’s hair. The court heard the victim suffered scalp hair loss extending to seven centimetres and required regular neck injections and daily pain medication.