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Delivery driver jailed for 'shocking' road rage attack

Date
2021-12-20

Stage
Sentence

Primary locality
Dublin City

County
Dublin

Summary

A delivery driver has been jailed at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for a violent assault on another van driver. Aiman Khalel, aged 40, of Rathmines, Dublin, was found guilty after trial of assault causing harm and production of a wheel lock during an incident on Clanbrassil Street Upper on 12 September 2018. The assault arose from a dispute over overtaking between the two drivers. Khalel struck the victim three times around the head and hand with a steering wheel lock he had removed from the victim's vehicle. The victim, who was hospitalised for approximately four days and subsequently required multiple surgeries, was bleeding from head and chin wounds. Judge Sarah Berkeley described the broad daylight attack as "shocking and vicious" and noted the victim's ongoing medical needs. Khalel, who has lived in Ireland for 17 years and has no previous convictions for violence, received a three-year custodial sentence with the final year suspended, conditional on engagement with the Probation Service. Aiman Khalel pleaded not guilty.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Delivery driver jailed for 'shocking' road rage attack. Charges or matters: the charges and does not accept the jury verdicts. Procedural stage: sentence. Findings: Convicted

When:

September 12, 2018 Incident
2021-12-20 Publication

Case subjects

Aiman Khalel

Convicted Person

Charges: the charges and does not accept the jury verdicts (Proven)

Plea: Not guilty

Finding: Convicted

Outcome: Convicted; She suspended the last year of a three-year prison sentence on condition that Khalel engage with the Probation Service for a year after his release.