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Dublin trio imprisoned for four years six months for torture, robbery and kidnapping of Waterford

  • 10-06-2025 11:10AM
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    Yellow_Fern
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    Three Waterford men sent to prison for false imprisonment, 'sadistic torture' and robbery of SETU student
    Three Waterford men sent to prison for false imprisonment, 'sadistic torture' and robbery of SETU student
    Three men, who appeared before Waterford Circuit Criminal Court, have been sent to prison for the false imprisonment, robbery and torture of a South East Technological University student in 2023.

    Three men have been sent to prison for the false imprisonment, robbery and torture of a South East Technological University student in 2023.

    In passing his sentence at Waterford Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Eugene O’Kelly said the ordeal suffered by the victim was “humiliation heaped on humiliation”.

    “It is a most serious, serious offence. It was a sadistic torture this innocent man was subjected to,” said Judge O’Kelly.

    The men were sentenced to four years and six months for false imprisonment, two years and nine months for assault causing harm and a further two years and nine months for robbery.

    The terms are to run concurrently, and the final six months were suspended for one year.

    Judge O’Kelly said: “It is as shocking a case as this court has had to deal with, and the victim impact statement sets out the gravity of the consequences this has had,” said Judge O’Kelly.


    After rereading the victim impact statement, Judge O’Kelly said that the attack was “cruel, callous and humiliating” and praised the victim for “bravely giving his statement".

    He said that in addition to the attack, the recording and broadcasting, as well as the taking of his belongings, was designed to “amplify” the victim’s suffering.

    “His life story was contained on his telephone as it is with many young people. And then to change his login details, which wiped out the possibility of getting his photos and his life story," said Judge O’Kelly.

    INCIDENT AND IMPACT

    Elroy Kalu (21), of 86 Avondale Park, Mulduddart, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, and two other men pleaded guilty to three counts of robbery, theft, assault causing harm and false imprisonment in Waterford on October 2, 2023.

    The two other men were minors at the time of the incident and cannot be named.

    At a sitting in December, the court heard that gardaí were able to piece together the events of the day from CCTV and footage taken by the defendants on their victim’s phone.

    CCTV footage showed the victim taken from the SETU campus on the Cork Road and brought around Waterford City before travelling to Tramore, while they intimidated him into giving them money from his Credit Union account.

    The victim was then taken to Wyse Park, where in a sustained attack, the group beat him, waterboarded him, and forced him to drink urine off the ground.

    They filmed the incident and broadcast it on the victim’s Snapchat, which is how his friends and family were alerted that something was wrong. They then forced him to give them his shoes, socks, and earrings, leaving him to walk home barefoot."

    https://www.waterford-news.ie/news/three-waterford-men-sent-to-prison-for-false-imprisonment-sadistic-torture-and-robbery-of-setu-st_arid-60604.html

    How on earth are such soft sentences given?



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