Galway Advertiser 2004/2004_04_08/GA_0804_E1_017.pdf 

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April 8 2004

Galway Advertiser

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Prison sentence for Bohermore man who spat at garda's face
A 33-years-old Bohermore man was sentenced to eight months in prison this week, four months of which was imposed for spitting into a Garda's face. Francis Sweeney, 19 Liam Mellowes Terrace, Bohermore, pleaded guilty to assaulting
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Garda Peter McGuinness, by spitting into his face on March 28 last after the garda was called to the Lantern Bar, Ballybane, because the accused refused to leave the premises. Inspector Pat McHugh said Sweeney struggled continuously as Garda McGuinness took him

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from the premises and he covered the garda's face in spit back at the Garda Station. Judge Mary Fahy said that what Sweeney did to the garda was absolutely disgusting and outrageous and had been carried out in a calculated way. Defence solicitor Valerie Corcoran said her

client had been drinking a lot in the last three years since his parents passed away. He now accepted what he did was disgusting and he was apologising for it. Inspector Pat McHugh said Sweeney had 31 previous convictions for road traffic and public order offences and he is currently serving a six-

month sentence in relation to other matters. In a separate incident Garda Muiris Quinn gave evidence he found Sweeney driving without insurance on September 25 last year. Judge Fahy said Sweeney had convictions all over the country and she sentenced him to four months for spitting at the

garda, to run consecutively with his current sentence. She then sentenced him to a further consecutive four-month sentence for driving without insurance and disqualified him from driving for five years. She sentenced him to two concurrent, one-

month sentences for failing to produce his documents to Garda Quinn and for not having a driving licence and she fined him 200 for failing to leave the Lantern Bar for Garda McGuinness. Recognisance was fixed in the event of an appeal.

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