Sarah Fitzgerald spared jail for taxi-driver assault

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Sarah Fitzgerald received a fully suspended two-and-a-half-year sentence for assaulting a taxi driver and causing him harm at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. The proceedings were reported on 18 June 2015.

The assault happened in Ranelagh on 5 July 2014. Fitzgerald had pleaded guilty to assaulting Ji Yu Song and causing him harm.

Judge Martin Nolan said Fitzgerald had been a secondary actor and ordered her to keep the peace for two and a half years. Fitzgerald brought €7,000 to court as a token of her remorse, which the judge ordered to be passed on to Ji Yu Song.