Extremely relieved and delighted’ says Fine Gael senator acquitted of attacking and injuring a man in a brawl outside a bar in Dundalk
Looks like the civil case might not go the way the other lad expects based on this.
'A prank' is what he called it. Was it ruled a prank in a court if law? You seem to accept his description without question.
No, but its important the public know such things.
We’ll see how it pans out.
Complete chancer vs Senator.
With CCTV that may prove the Senator was the victim thrown in.
Should be interesting.
There's no CCTV that proves he's the victim FFS if there was the DPP would never have sent him forward for trial.
I wasn’t aware it got to a court of law either way? Is there a link to that case?
If you have evidence of an alleged sexual assault why haven’t you reported it to the gardai?
Who is stopping the public from ‘knowing’?
You tried this earlier in the thread, claiming that there was a conspiracy to keep the recent assault case quiet etc. All in your head.
FFS indeed.
The jury didn’t agree with the DPP clearly.
Unless you have seen all the CCTV footage you can’t say what it does or doesn’t show.
Have you seen the CCTV footage?
Just a tip - it wouldn’t be the first time a dodgy case got to court when it shouldn’t have. Read up about the Sil Fox case if you aren’t already aware of it. DPP covered themselves in glory with that one.
100% correct.
It seems some people are trying to convict people just because they are a member of a rival political party. Really concerning attitude to have in 2022.
I provided a link to the newspaper article. He posed for photos while in the act. He apologised on the radio for shoving the chocolate bar up the sleeping man's arse. I'm not making a claim, I'm commeting on facts.
Not when he admitted to the act and apologised. You are content to call it 'a prank' to dismiss the assault, without any conviction.
He hasn't been convicted no, he did shove a chocolate bar up a sleeping man's arse.
It's not like he alledged RTE defamed him and he tried to sue them.
In this case he did it. He apologised and there's photos of him doing it.
If you actually think the DPP would send forward a government senator for trial if there was CCTV proving he was the victim then I honestly can't help you.
Your shilling on behalf of John is impressive though are you a personal friend or a party member?
A conspiracy now. Keep digging. 😂
You're the one at the conspiracy chat claiming the DPP sent a government senator forward for trial despite there being CCTV available showing he was the victim.
Did you read up on the Sil Fox case?
Wouldn’t be the first time this has happened.
Why do you think the jury acquitted him?
The guy was proved innocent. Who needs to "shilling"
He was acquitted because the jury didn't think the state had proven its case.
Holy crap, stumbled across this thread from the main page. Didnt realise John himself posted on boards. Every day is a school day
Who? Sil Fox?
Zinger. 🥱
AKA the milky bar kid.
"Get to the bottom" a very good choice of words here
Thread not going as you'd like?
Sure all assault and abuse is a prank right? If its a FG'er doing it.
What assault? Has he been charged with an offence?
He sounds like an absolute scrote. Suppose FG have a dodgy bloke at the top under criminal investigation and the fish rots from the head as they say.
You have lost any credibility. You spend your life defending every single member of SF and the PIRA on the basis of them being innocent until proven guilty, yet this Senator and Leo are just two of the rival political party reps that you have found guilty without any evidence or any trial.
Let's be clear. This man is unsuitable to be a candidate for FG, nobody is suggesting otherwise. However, what has been alleged on here by you about him has been far worse than has been alleged about MLMD, yet you are not jumping up and down about him being a victim of defamation. That says it all about your bias.
Excellent point. The usual crew spin themselves up in knots on who is guilty and innocent depending on the party. Never mind the lies perpetuated by the usual crew.
They do it because its all part of the game. Lie, and continue to lie all for 'the cause'.
Is this not the second Fine Gael public figure from up around the border area who has found themselves having to appear and defend themselves in court because they were accused of carrying out an act of violence against a member of the public?
At least this senator can lay claim to being the very first FG member before a jury who wasn't subsequently convicted for violent assault. (Would that be considered a win?)
Highlighting the behaviour of FG public representatives, and their obvious violent streaks and undertones by creating a thread about it wasn't exactly the brightest idea.
He was found not guilty.
The rest of your post is just off topic guff.
He was found not guilty, correct.
He's also the second party member who appeared in front of a jury on charges relating to violently assaulting a member of the public. Also correct, an inconvenient truth, and likely highly embarrassing for the party, but definitely not off topic guff.
Do you understand that he was found NOT GUILTY?
