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Prison inmate to serve additional sentence following jailhouse stabbing
Summary
Dean Teeling, 36, of Ballymun, Dublin, was sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for violent disorder and assault causing harm arising from a Mountjoy prison incident on December 18, 2018, and a separate assault causing harm during a knife attack on Fownes Street in Temple Bar on January 8, 2022. Teeling pleaded guilty to all charges. Judge Martin Nolan described the prison assault as "pretty savage" and imposed three-year custodial sentences for each offence, ordered to run consecutively, resulting in a total of six years. The court noted Teeling's history of offending, including prior knife assaults. Brad Dempsey, 24, of Crumlin, Dublin, also pleaded guilty to affray at Mountjoy prison for his involvement in the 2018 melee, where he allegedly kicked the victim. Judge Nolan sentenced Dempsey to 18 months imprisonment for this offence. Dempsey is currently serving an eight-year term for firearms offences imposed in 2022. The sentences for both defendants were finalized at this procedural stage.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: Prison inmate to serve additional sentence following jailhouse stabbing. Charges or matters: violent disorder and assault causing harm; assault causing harm to a man during a knife attack on Fownes Street in Temple Bar, Dublin city centre on January 8, 2022; affray at Mountjoy prison. Procedural stage: sentence
When:
- December 18, 2018 Incident
- January 8, 2022 Incident
- 2025-10-14 Publication
Case subjects
Convicted Person
Charges: affray at Mountjoy prison (Admitted)
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Nolan sentenced Dempsey to 18 months imprisonment for his involvement in the prison affray.
Defendant
Charges: violent disorder and assault causing harm; assault causing harm to a man during a knife attack on Fownes Street in Temple Bar, Dublin city centre on January 8, 2022; affray at Mountjoy prison (Admitted)
Plea: Guilty
Places mentioned
- Mountjoy
- Mountjoy prison
- Dublin
- Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
- Fownes Street
- Temple Bar
- Dublin city
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