A man who attacked a number of cars with a crutch causing more than \u20ac3,000 of damage has been jailed for two months.<\/p>\n
Leo Marley was walking through Ballybofey when he set upon the cars parked at McElhinney\u2019s Car Park at approximately 11.30am on June 22nd last.<\/p>\n
Garda Sergeant Jim Collins told Letterkenny District Court that three cars had damage to various doors and paintwork with the total value of the damage being \u20ac3,100.<\/p>\n
The random incident was seen by a number of horrified bystanders and was also captured on CCTV.<\/p>\n
Marley was arrested a short time later and admitted causing the damage.<\/p>\n
He is charged with three counts of damaging property belonging to another person contrary to section 2 (1) of the Criminal Damage Act, 1991.<\/p>\n
Marley did not appear in court as he is already serving a sentence for breaking into Ballybofey Garda Station just before Christmas claiming he was homeless and it was freezing cold outside.<\/p>\n
He was represented in court by his solicitor, Mr Patsy Gallagher.<\/p>\n
Mr Gallagher said the court was well aware of Mr Marley and that it had sentenced him to a prison sentence for breaking into the Garda Station and other matters just weeks ago.<\/p>\n
He added that his client has effectively been \u201clooking after himself\u201d since he was 14 years old and has issues with both alcohol and drugs.<\/p>\n
The man\u2019s solicitor added \u201cHe\u2019s 34 and we\u2019re in the court\u2019s hands. I\u2019m asking the court not to add to his sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judge Emile Daly said these were \u201cserious matters\u201d, the damage to the cars was put at \u20ac3,100 as had been outlined in the court.<\/p>\n
She said she was imposing a headline sentence of three months in prison for Marley but that in the light of Mr Gallagher\u2019s plea, she would reduce that sentence to one of two months.<\/p>\n
The sentence is to run concurrently with any matters which Marley is already in prison for.<\/p>\n
Man who caused \u20ac3,100 of damage to cars with crutch is jailed for two months was last modified: February 10th, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who attacked a number of cars with a crutch causing more than \u20ac3,000 of damage has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-290837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290837","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=290837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}