Town mayor saves son during gang assault in family store

Dubh Geannain

A 73-year-old town mayor has described how he rescued his son during a gang assault.

Tommy Reilly, Lord Mayor of Navan, Co Meath, managed to pull the gang of five young men off his son Ciaran Reilly during the vicious attack.

However, he said he is "disgraced by gardaí letting the perpetrators walk free."

The attack, that was captured on CCTV, shows Tommy's son Ciaran, who runs Reilly’s Londis in Navan, being repeatedly struck with glass vases and being kicked and punched until being dragged to safety.

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http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/town-mayor-73-saves-son-during-gang-assault-in-family-store-35855057.html

Even without charges being pressed at a later date. A night in the clink on the day of the incident could surely be justified for this sort of carry on.

bladespin

Gardai had them on the scene and released them to go torment someone else, not good, same crowd have been causing trouble in the park nearby to this shop on a regular basis. Crazy.

Slippin Jimmy

The town has really gone to the dogs. It's not good enough that they were allowed walk away. They're all very brave once they're in a group. Absolute scum.

Hopefully karma will catch up with them soon.

paul71

He should release the CCTV onto the internet if guards are not prosecuting

bladespin

paul71 wrote:

He should release the CCTV onto the internet if guards are not prosecuting

One witness has uploaded pictures or the 'incident' none of that pixelated nonsense either.

paul71

bladespin wrote: »

One witness has uploaded pictures or the 'incident' none of that pixelated nonsense either.

Good on him