{"id":427037,"date":"2026-05-01T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427037\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:57:10","slug":"sligo-property-developer-jailed-for-two-years-for-assaulting-three-teens-he-wrongly-accused-of-breaking-windows-at-his-premises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427037\/","title":{"rendered":"Sligo property developer jailed for two years for assaulting three teens he wrongly accused of breaking windows at his premises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cathal O'Connor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7df67311-7d8b-4dfc-b63f-caabeb274557.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)\">Cathal O&#8217;Connor<\/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 Sligo developer has been jailed at Sligo Circuit Court for two years for the assault of three 13 year old boys whom he also threatened to kill.<\/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)\">Judge Keenan Johnson said the court very much regretted having to impose a custodial sentence on Cathal O\u2019Connor but given the grave nature of the offending and in particular the severity of the three asaults which included the production of a saw, the choking of one of the victims, the repeated punching and kneeing of the victims and the prolonged duration of the assaults together with multiple death threats and efforts to intimidate the victims into silence the court had no option but to mark the high culpability of the defendant and the gravity of the offending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cathal O&#8217;Connor A Sligo developer has been jailed at Sligo Circuit Court for two years for the assault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,2259],"class_list":["post-427037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-paul-deering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427037","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=427037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}