Judge makes no order after request to revisit Anthony Stokes sentence

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Judge Patricia Ryan made no order on 11 May 2017 after a prosecutor asked Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to revisit Anthony Stokes’s two-year suspended sentence over an unpaid €30,000 expression of remorse.

Stokes pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to Anthony Bradley at Buck Whaleys on Leeson Street, Dublin, on 8 June 2013. Judge Ryan imposed the two-year suspended sentence in February 2017. The proceedings were reported on 11 May 2017.

At the sentencing hearing, defence counsel said Stokes had arranged for the money to be transferred in the UK and asked for two weeks. Judge Ryan said the payment, described as a “practical expression of remorse”, was not a condition of the suspended sentence. Civil proceedings were ongoing in the High Court.

On 11 May, prosecuting counsel Diarmuid Collins told the judge the money had not been paid and asked her to consider revisiting the sentence. Judge Ryan said she had allowed the case to be re-entered to facilitate the transfer, and reiterated that payment was not a sentence condition. She made no order and said compensation was a matter for the civil courts.