{"id":484838,"date":"2026-06-05T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/484838\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:59:10","slug":"man-allegedly-part-of-14-man-pack-that-chased-qayyum-balogun-charged-over-assaults-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/484838\/","title":{"rendered":"Man allegedly part of \u201814-man pack\u2019 that chased Qayyum Balogun charged over assaults \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man who was allegedly part of a \u201c14-man pack\u201d that chased Qayyum Balogun has appeared in court on charges of assault causing harm and violent disorder in connection with the investigation into the student\u2019s death in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin<\/a> city centre early on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Joshua Brodericks (25), with an address at Gleann Dara in Rahoon, Co Galway, faces four charges in relation to the incident. He is not being charged with any offences specifically against Balogun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is alleged that Brodericks, in the morning of June 1st, on Grafton Street, assaulted a man named Oreoluwa Amosu. He was also charged with assault causing harm to a woman named Chloe Scannell on the same street, whom he allegedly punched in the face, knocking her to the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Brodericks also faces two counts of violent disorder. The court heard that Brodericks committed violent disorder on Clarendon Street and on Grafton Street alongside unnamed individuals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is alleged that Brodericks and two other unknown people \u201cused or threatened to use unlawful violence\u201d in a manner that led the victim to fear for their lives in two incidents, first on Clarendon Street and then on Grafton Street.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Qayyum Balogun was stabbed in the Grafton Street area\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780678750_829_7CBUJVA3SVGLRAMEBY2BWDK42Q.jpeg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"598\"\/>Qayyum Balogun was stabbed in the Grafton Street area <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 25-year-old appeared in court wearing a black sweatshirt and black trousers in front of Judge Peter White at the Central Criminal Courts of Justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The arresting garda, Will McCarthy of Pearse Street  station, told the court he arrested the accused on Thursday evening at 6.27pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">While a bail application was made, it was contested by An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na in the \u201cstrongest possible terms\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The judge  said the charges are \u201cserious offences\u201d and relate to an incident that lead to a man\u2019s death, but noted that the charges do not relate directly to Balogun or his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe accused is not charged with any offences specifically against Mr Balogun and I think that is important to note,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">While he recognised that there were some \u201cvalid concerns\u201d under O\u2019Callaghan rules, the judge approved bail under strict conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was allegedly part of a \u201c14-man pack\u201d that chased Qayyum Balogun has appeared in court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[97986,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-484838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-file-photo","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484838","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=484838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}