{"id":156734,"date":"2025-11-24T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156734\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:40:09","slug":"boxing-coach-who-cable-tied-abducted-and-assaulted-victim-avoids-custodial-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156734\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing coach who cable-tied, abducted and assaulted victim avoids custodial sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Wexford man pleaded guilty to what the circuit court judge described as a \u2018pretty horrendous crime\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Murphy, address given in court as 107, Shing\u00e1n, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ce54e6e2-05ce-4cbc-990c-54a19443ee29.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">David Murphy, address given in court as 107, Shing\u00e1n, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A 38-year-old boxing coach from Wexford who cable-tied, abducted and assaulted another man was spared jail by Judge James McCartan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Defendant David Murphy, address given in court as 107, Shing\u00e1n, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford received favourable testimony from the detective who investigated the case. And he also had the benefit of entering a guilty plea to the charge of falsely imprisoning a man called Jamie Murphy in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wexford man pleaded guilty to what the circuit court judge described as a \u2018pretty horrendous crime\u2019 David Murphy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24533,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-156734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-david-medcalf","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}