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Partially deaf girl's €5k fine for role in riot - City News, National News - Herald.ie
A PARTIALLY deaf teenage girl, who punched and bit a garda during a riot on Dublin's O'Connell Street, has been spared a custodial sentence after she paid over €5,000 in compensation yesterday.
The then 16-year-old girl, a first-time offender, had been found guilty at the Dublin Children's Court of assaulting a causing harm to a female garda, on December 27, 2006.
After her trial in January she had been ordered to pay €5,000 compensation or a six-month sentence would be imposed.
In April the schoolgirl had brought €1,000 to court; she was then remanded on bail to appear again yesterday when the remaining €4,000 was handed over.
CONTACT
The court had heard the girl had no contact with her mother, and her father was deceased. In recent years she has been reared by her pensioner grandmother and had no income.
On hearing that the compensation had been paid in full, Judge Clare Leonard applied the Probation Act leaving the girl, who was accompanied by a relative, without a recorded criminal conviction.
The court had heard that the girl had been in the middle of a riot that broke out when about 400 youths came onto O'Connell Street, after an underage disco.
Garda Jennifer Gorman said youths started jumping on cars and fighting with gardai.
She said she saw the girl running at a colleague and stopped her. "I told her to go home and as I turned away from her she struck me on the side of my head with her fist."
The girl became extremely violent and had to be restrained.
A PARTIALLY deaf teenage girl, who punched and bit a garda during a riot on Dublin's O'Connell Street, has been spared a custodial sentence after she paid over €5,000 in compensation yesterday.
The then 16-year-old girl, a first-time offender, had been found guilty at the Dublin Children's Court of assaulting a causing harm to a female garda, on December 27, 2006.
After her trial in January she had been ordered to pay €5,000 compensation or a six-month sentence would be imposed.
In April the schoolgirl had brought €1,000 to court; she was then remanded on bail to appear again yesterday when the remaining €4,000 was handed over.
CONTACT
The court had heard the girl had no contact with her mother, and her father was deceased. In recent years she has been reared by her pensioner grandmother and had no income.
On hearing that the compensation had been paid in full, Judge Clare Leonard applied the Probation Act leaving the girl, who was accompanied by a relative, without a recorded criminal conviction.
The court had heard that the girl had been in the middle of a riot that broke out when about 400 youths came onto O'Connell Street, after an underage disco.
Garda Jennifer Gorman said youths started jumping on cars and fighting with gardai.
She said she saw the girl running at a colleague and stopped her. "I told her to go home and as I turned away from her she struck me on the side of my head with her fist."
The girl became extremely violent and had to be restrained.