A YOUNG Dublin woman who assaulted a youth with a broken bottle at Shankill Dart station after a verbal altercation between two groups has had her sentencing adjourned.
Allwyn O’Connell (20), Rathsallagh Park, Shankill, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm to the then 17-year-old male on March 2nd, 2007.
Judge Tony Hunt said there had been “toing and froing” between the two groups but that O’Connell’s reaction was “out of all proportion to what was going on”.
He adjourned sentencing until April to allow a probation report to be prepared.
Garda Thomas Devereux told Shane Costelloe , prosecuting, that the victim was waiting on the platform when he and his friends noted a group of girls shouting abuse at them. O’Connell came across to his platform with her friends and started to further verbally abuse him before they all started hitting him. She continued to assault him and he felt blood on his left ear and thumb. A member of the public gave him first aid and gardaí were alerted.