I know the headline is very provocative, but the picture painted in the rest of the article is one I don’t at all envy presiding over. Seems like a lose lose on either way you go with the verdict.
Ah sure look, she was asking for it.
Case closed. Boys will be boys
*”William Galvin, 33, of Cloonloughlin, Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon, pleaded guilty at this week’s sessions of Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm after an eight-week relationship with the woman.*
*She revealed that Galvin told her* ***he would treat her like a dog as he pulled her along the ground in a row over a vacuum cleaner****, which he removed from her home.*
*In her victim impact statement, the woman told how* ***she had to get gardai to make him delete a phone app he used to watch her through cameras installed in her home.***
*The attack happened at Manor Valley, Monksland, Athlone, Co. Roscommon on 8 November 2021.*
*Judge Keenan Johnson noted Galvin has since been* ***diagnosed as being bipolar and prescribed medication,*** *which significantly reduced his risk of reoffending.*
*The sentence was suspended once he did not reoffend in the next five years and obeyed several conditions.*
*Judge Keenan Johnson also ordered him to pay her just over €7,500 and never to contact the woman or her family.*
….”
Hope William stays on the anti-vacuum meds.
So a doctor diagnosed him as bipolar.
Would it not perhaps be a good idea to have this person assessed by a psychiatrist at some point?
https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2020/1120/1179452-tullamore-court/ – Tullamore Circuit Court was told by Garda Helen Colleran that defendant Nicolai Cojuhari, a 28-year-old who has received a three-year suspended sentence for cultivating cannabis, was at the bottom rung of the operation and would be right to fear those above him.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0718/891265-sligo-assault-compensation/ – attack which resulted in a man having his jaw broken in two places “Judge Johnson imposed a suspended four-year sentence” **”He said a fortune is spent on incarcerating people, but asked what use that is to the victim in this case.”**
There are literally dozens of more examples of light sentences for brutal attacks & sexual assaults by Judge Keenan Johnson.
**“Let nobody claim that cannabis is a harmless drug,” Judge Keenan Johnson stated in Waterford Circuit Criminal Court last week when told that a drug addict was forced to hold cannabis with a street value of more than €5,000 for a major player in the local drugs scene.**
We almost need a reset at this point. Like WTF.
How do we fix this.
Just goes to show how out of touch these judges are.
After all the uproar about the corrupt ruling given to Cathal Crotty, the judge is so out of touch with public sentiment and the massive protest that ensured, he goes and does this???
The mind boggles.
We need Judicial accountability now!
Where do we get these twats from. It seems the biggest tools in Ireland, out of touch with the public are judges.
Disgusting
How.. are the judges in this country just told to ignore violence??
This is insane and infuriating. The courts appear to have launched a war on women.
Justice is system is a joke. Convinced Martin Nolan, Keenan Johnson and their cronies are in on the crimes sometimes. Get more time for garlic importing than these actual unbelievable crimes.
I was wrongly charged twice by Gardaí of two related instances of BnE. The standard *we’ll reduce the charges if you talk*. Then rearrested me in court with even worse charges.
My public defender told me to plead guilty and stop asking my witness to lie, or shed be deported
I sacked him, and paid a grand for the luxury of a solicitor who would actually use the overwhelming evidence I had provided, proving my innocence.
That solicitor then said he’d have to get the Gards to drop it, as the judge that was sitting almost never finds anyone innocent… the idea being that if they care/can pay they’ll appeal to the Circuit Court.
They did drop it, but the charge blocks me going anywhere without a visa, and I couldn’t even get my €1k back, as it never went to trial
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That’ll teach him.
I know the headline is very provocative, but the picture painted in the rest of the article is one I don’t at all envy presiding over. Seems like a lose lose on either way you go with the verdict.
Ah sure look, she was asking for it.
Case closed. Boys will be boys
*”William Galvin, 33, of Cloonloughlin, Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon, pleaded guilty at this week’s sessions of Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm after an eight-week relationship with the woman.*
*She revealed that Galvin told her* ***he would treat her like a dog as he pulled her along the ground in a row over a vacuum cleaner****, which he removed from her home.*
*In her victim impact statement, the woman told how* ***she had to get gardai to make him delete a phone app he used to watch her through cameras installed in her home.***
*The attack happened at Manor Valley, Monksland, Athlone, Co. Roscommon on 8 November 2021.*
*Judge Keenan Johnson noted Galvin has since been* ***diagnosed as being bipolar and prescribed medication,*** *which significantly reduced his risk of reoffending.*
*The sentence was suspended once he did not reoffend in the next five years and obeyed several conditions.*
*Judge Keenan Johnson also ordered him to pay her just over €7,500 and never to contact the woman or her family.*
….”
Hope William stays on the anti-vacuum meds.
So a doctor diagnosed him as bipolar.
Would it not perhaps be a good idea to have this person assessed by a psychiatrist at some point?
Judge Keenan Johnson
https://www.rte.ie/news/leinster/2023/1219/1422917-offaly-sentencing/ – eight years, with another two years suspended, 730k Cannabis
https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2020/1120/1179452-tullamore-court/ – Tullamore Circuit Court was told by Garda Helen Colleran that defendant Nicolai Cojuhari, a 28-year-old who has received a three-year suspended sentence for cultivating cannabis, was at the bottom rung of the operation and would be right to fear those above him.
https://www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/crime-and-courts/311114/up-to-his-neck-in-drug-dealing.html – sentenced to five years in jail, with a portion suspended … In total there were 670.8g of cannabis to a value of €13,400, and 30.16g of crystal meth worth €1,825.
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligo/news/sligo-man-who-bought-drugs-off-the-dark-net-to-sell-is-jailed-for-18-months/42297200.html – A 21 year old Sligo man was sentenced to one year and six months in prison by Judge Keenan Johnson at Sligo Circuit Court for possession of drugs for sale or supply.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0718/891265-sligo-assault-compensation/ – attack which resulted in a man having his jaw broken in two places “Judge Johnson imposed a suspended four-year sentence” **”He said a fortune is spent on incarcerating people, but asked what use that is to the victim in this case.”**
https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/jilted-law-student-19-avoids-jail-after-enlisting-gang-to-tie-up-ex-and-assault-him/1524954476.html – ordered to pay €7,500 in compensation “enlisting a gang of youths to tie her former boyfriend up and violently assault him during the course of an alleged aggravated burglary.”
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/ex-accountant-38-jailed-for-sex-assault-on-teenage-girl-celebrating-leaving-cert-results-1551732.html – three years and six months, with the final nine months suspended for four years “for a “disgusting” sexual assault on a vulnerable teenage girl he approached while she was out celebrating her Leaving Certificate results.”
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/man-who-repeatedly-punched-and-kicked-pregnant-partner-has-sentence-doubled-1497593.html – Man who repeatedly punched and kicked pregnant partner has sentence doubled. “Jason Doyle (28), who has 86 previous convictions including those for domestic violence, had been charged with four counts of assaulting his then partner, Karen Maguire, causing her harm at their home on January 10th, 2021.” originally sentenced to 9 months by Keenan Johsnon
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligo/news/courts/sligo-man-56-pleads-guilty-to-indecent-assault-of-relative-in-1970s-and-80s/42290823.html – “A 56 year old Sligo man has pleaded guilty to 21 counts of indecently assaulting a female relative in locations in Co Sligo during the late ‘70s and 80s.”
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligo/news/youth-club-leader-jailed-for-abuse-of-young-boy/39214779.html – “A 54-year-old man who founded a youth club and groomed a 16-year-old boy before engaging in sexual acts with him at his home has been given a two-and-a-half year prison sentence.”
There are literally dozens of more examples of light sentences for brutal attacks & sexual assaults by Judge Keenan Johnson.
**“Let nobody claim that cannabis is a harmless drug,” Judge Keenan Johnson stated in Waterford Circuit Criminal Court last week when told that a drug addict was forced to hold cannabis with a street value of more than €5,000 for a major player in the local drugs scene.**
We almost need a reset at this point. Like WTF.
How do we fix this.
Just goes to show how out of touch these judges are.
After all the uproar about the corrupt ruling given to Cathal Crotty, the judge is so out of touch with public sentiment and the massive protest that ensured, he goes and does this???
The mind boggles.
We need Judicial accountability now!
Where do we get these twats from. It seems the biggest tools in Ireland, out of touch with the public are judges.
Disgusting
How.. are the judges in this country just told to ignore violence??
This is insane and infuriating. The courts appear to have launched a war on women.
Justice is system is a joke. Convinced Martin Nolan, Keenan Johnson and their cronies are in on the crimes sometimes. Get more time for garlic importing than these actual unbelievable crimes.
I was wrongly charged twice by Gardaí of two related instances of BnE. The standard *we’ll reduce the charges if you talk*. Then rearrested me in court with even worse charges.
My public defender told me to plead guilty and stop asking my witness to lie, or shed be deported
I sacked him, and paid a grand for the luxury of a solicitor who would actually use the overwhelming evidence I had provided, proving my innocence.
That solicitor then said he’d have to get the Gards to drop it, as the judge that was sitting almost never finds anyone innocent… the idea being that if they care/can pay they’ll appeal to the Circuit Court.
They did drop it, but the charge blocks me going anywhere without a visa, and I couldn’t even get my €1k back, as it never went to trial
Shambolic
Make. Crime. Illegal.