A judge has described as \u201cvery disturbing\u201d an assault in which the victim was punched, pulled to the ground and kicked.<\/p>\n
Aidan Daniels (30) and Adam Kelly (21), with an address at Rochdale, Honeypark, Monkstown, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court<\/a> to assault with intent to cause bodily harm at the Daybreak shop in Loughlinstown, Dublin<\/a>, on June 23rd, 2025.<\/p>\n Garda Sinead Whelan told Edward Doocey, prosecuting, that a member of the public anonymously called garda\u00ed after witnessing the attack on a man outside the shop.<\/p>\n The victim declined to make any statement to garda\u00ed but the defendants were identified from CCTV of the attack.<\/p>\n Viewing this footage in court, Judge Martina Baxter said: \u201cThis is very disturbing.\u201d The footage showed Kelly punching and kneeing the victim as he \u201cslides to the ground\u201d.<\/p>\n She said the victim is then defenceless on the ground and being dragged by his hoodie with one of the men dragging him by his leg.<\/p>\n The judge noted that one of the men is seen trying to stamp on the victim\u2019s head.<\/p>\n Gda Whelan testified that the victim was punched, kneed, kicked and stamped on multiple times. <\/p>\n Kelly\u2019s 38 previous convictions include theft, drug dealing, criminal damage and careless driving. He was on a suspended sentence imposed in February 2025 when he carried out this assault.<\/p>\n Daniels has 18 previous convictions, including possession of a flick knife, aggravated burglary and vehicle theft. Most of these are from the UK, where Daniels lived up to 2018 and before he moved here.<\/p>\n At the time of the assault he was out on bail for other offences, which are still before the courts. The men were arrested on July 17th last year and bail was refused.<\/p>\n Shaun Smyth, defending Daniels, said his client went into care at a young age. He accepts that this was a horrific offence and is remorseful.<\/p>\n He said the father of three, including a newborn, plans to engage with his family when he gets out of custody.<\/p>\n Carol Doherty, defending Kelly, said this harrowing, violent episode was out of character with his previous non-violent offending.<\/p>\n She provided the court with a letter from his partner, who has just given birth to their first child. His partner believes that Kelly\u2019s perspective on life has changed now with the birth of his son, counsel told the court.<\/p>\n The judge ordered reports from the prison governors on both defendants and adjourned sentencing to May 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge has described as \u201cvery disturbing\u201d an assault in which the victim was punched, pulled to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-414310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414310","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=414310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}