Probation for teen guilty of ‘violent disorder’ at Dart station

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  1. When gardai asked him why he left after the girl fell off the platform, he replied: “I felt bad I didn’t help her; I was in shock.”

    “In situations like that, you just walk away. You don’t get involved,” he said.

    Pleaded Not Guilty, shows no remorse. Probation. What a fucking farce . I don’t know why we bother.

  2. 5 years of probation and terms include do not associate the people involved, get a third level education/get a trade/full time job. Pay compensation to the girl for her counselling fees as she will surely need this after the horrific attack. If any of these terms are broken prison for 5 years. Just a thought but being told don’t be bold again won’t work.

  3. So this is one of the three involved and not the one that was charged with the more serious crime of assault causing harm?

  4. What a fucking disgrace.
    I’m not saying lock him away for 10 years, but probation is as useful as the courts wagging their finger and calling him a “bold boy”.

  5. Calm down folks, it’s not as if he was committing a serious offense, such as carrying a small amount of cannabis in his pockets or growing a plant in his closet

  6. Read the other thread on the Brazillian delivery cyclist on trial for stabbing a scumbag and this is *exactly* why that shit happens. This, right here, is *exactly* why. There is absolutely no justice in this country, no meaningful consequences for violent crime that doesn’t fall under *organised* violent crime, and everyone knows it. The public (potential victims) know it. The scumbags know it. The Gardaí know it, which is why their morale and energy for dealing with these situations appears to be so low from an onlooker’s point of view.

    The system is absolutely fucked. *Fucked*. This has been going on for 15 years at least, and the widespread low level violence so many people are now openly talking about in urban areas – violence which causes people to avoid cities, violence which makes gay people nervous about holding hands with their partners in public (have friends who feel this way after the last year or so of news stories, sadly), violence which makes life an absolute hell for anyone unfortunate enough to live in the same neighbourhood as these people.

    It is so, so, so, so depressing and frustrating to see this happening so often, see the direct results of it in terms of general urban decline and the slide from safe and chilled out to dangerous and dodgy for so many areas, both commercial and residential.

    Everyone talks about it, except the media and the politicians. Everyone else. And still nothing is done.

  7. But don’t ya dare be defending yourself at all.
    Pepper spray should be legal for scumbags like this

  8. This is a travesty. I don’t want an American style system, where they hand out life sentences for shop lifting, but the opposite extreme, which we seem to have isn’t good either.

  9. I am just waiting for a moment that some people will eventually snap and we have a lone(or group) vigilante going around dishing out justice to these gimps.

    That in itself is wrong, but it’s one way to get the fear of God into those that think they can runamuck

  10. The reality is that victims of Irish crime are irrelevant and seen as learning opportunities for perpetrators in the eyes of the legal and do gooder ecosystem. They will claim rehabilitation can ensure this moron does not offend again. Grand. Rehabilitate him in prison for ten years so when he gets about he has some chance of being a better parent than he would be at the minute.

  11. The worst part is, even if he does anything while on probation he will likely get away with that too. Has basically just been sent to the naughty corner

  12. ‘Don’t be caught being a cunt for 6 months, and then you can go back to being a cunt in public again.’

  13. I have a friend who was the victim of a totally unprovoked attack. Usual craic, 70+ convictions for the scum that did it. Suspended sentence.

    My mate left the country immediately. Emigrated to Canada and hasn’t returned since and that was 4 years ago. Said he couldn’t live here, pay tax to prop up that circus of a justice system.

  14. Absolute scum of the earth and his parents were (are) probably the exact same. Streets aren’t safe until every one of these mistakes is put in prison.

  15. Once again our fantastic judges knocking home the point to the youth – act like a scumbag and don’t worry about the consequences because if there’s any they won’t be worth mentioning. Disgraceful but sadly expected.

    Next month the guy that kicked her will probably receive less once he comes up with a sob story.

  16. How does a regular Joe on the street protest the juridical system in Ireland and express their frustration? Genuine question, are there any protest groups or any kind of a process where a formal complaint gets logged in the system?

    I see a lot of outrage, but not a lot of ways to take action.

  17. Push a girl underneath a train……ahhh we can trust you sure go on, be on your way young man

    Get caught with a joint, you get named and shamed in the paper, could end up losing your job, criminal record for life.

    Ahh the magic of Ireland’s legal system

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