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November 6 2003
Galway Advertiser
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Sentencing deferred for a year in student assault case
A Salthill student who paid 15,000 in compensation to a man he seriously assaulted, had sentencing adjourned for one year, when he appeared before Galway Circuit Criminal Court this week. Shane Boyle, 5 Whitestrand Avenue, Salthill, Galway, pleaded guilty to violent disorder and assaulting Tony Geraghty at Dominick Street, Galway, on July 13 last year, when he first appeared before Galway Circuit Criminal Court last March. Boyle got into an argument with Mr Geraghty in the Blue Thunder restaurant in Dominick Street, over alleged queue jumping. Mr Geraghty was hit into the face and he fell to the ground, suffering a fracture of his right temporal bone. A blood clot formed on the surface of his brain and he was transferred the next day to Beaumont Hospital, in Dublin, for an operation to remove the clot and repair the fractured bone. Judge Moran had adjourned the matter to May, indicating that Boyle would have to pay a considerable percentage of 15,000 in compensation by that date. Boyle paid 4,000 on that date and the matter was further adjourned to this week to allow him pay another 4,000. However, defence solicitor, Sean O'Carroll said his client had the balance of 11,000 in court this week. Judge Carroll Moran said this had been a bad assault and a pretty vicious incident but to his credit Boyle had paid over all of the compensation promptly and he had pleaded guilty at an early stage. He had no previous convictions either and he had shown remorse. A favourable probation report was also handed into the court, Judge Moran noted. He sentenced Boyle to three years in prison, suspended for two years on condition that he obey all directions of the probation service in the meantime and he bound him to keep the peace for two years. Mr O'Carroll asked the judge to vacate his order stating that his client's career prospects would be in jeopardy if he had a conviction. Judge Moran relented and vacated the sentence. He adjourned sentencing for one year on condition that Boyle obey all directions of the probation service in the meantime.
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