A man who used an e-bike to assault a garda who was trying to enforce Covid lockdown restrictions has been given a prison term of 20 months.<\/p>\n
In May 2021 Corey Plunkett, aged 32, was outside at around 2am with a number of other men when garda\u00ed approached them in order to disperse them on foot of the partial lockdown restrictions still in place at the time.<\/p>\n
Plunkett was on an e-bike and began circling around the garda\u00ed. A garda moved to grab him and Plunkett swung the e-bike at the victim, striking his eye.<\/p>\n
The garda suffered a cut around the eye and required stitches but has made a full recovery, the court heard.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed managed to arrest Plunkett and was brought to Monkstown Garda Station. He was uncooperative and assaulted the garda member-in-charge. Garda Kevin O’Keefe told Brian Storan BL, prosecuting.<\/p>\n
Plunkett of Rosary Terrace, Library Road, D\u00fan Laoghaire, Dublin pleaded guilty to assaulting a garda in the course of his duty at a place in Monkstown on 23 May 2001.<\/p>\n
The court heard he has a previous conviction for a street assault on a member of the public in 2019. He was also charged and convicted in relation to the assault at the garda station and received an eight month sentence.<\/p>\n
Silvia-Maria Crowley BL, defending, told the court that her client’s offending dates back to 2021 or before when he was struggling with addictions to cocaine, crack cocaine, cannabis and alcohol.<\/p>\n
She said the father of two has since turned his life around. She said he has brought \u20ac2,000 to court as a token of his remorse.<\/p>\n
Judge Martin Nolan said Plunkett has a history of violent behaviour and seemed to have an anger management problem at the time of the offending.<\/p>\n
He ordered that the \u20ac2,000 be handed over to the injured party and that if he did not want to receive it, it should be given to a local charity. He said the principal purpose of paying over this money is to punish the defendant.<\/p>\n
He imposed a 20 months sentence to run from today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who used an e-bike to assault a garda who was trying to enforce Covid lockdown restrictions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-175079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175079","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=175079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}