Letterkenny man who provided wheel brace to attacker is jailed

A Letterkenny teenager has been jailed for 4 months for his half in separate incidents whereas he was a juvenile.

John McGinley, an 18-year-old of Glenwood Park, appeared earlier than Letterkenny District Court docket in reference to the ancients in June 2021 and August 2021.

McGinley is at present incarcerated in Castlerea Jail, the place he’s serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence for stabbing a person within the face on Letterkenny Primary Road in April 2022.

McGinley was dropped at courtroom by jail officers.

Sergeant Jim Collins instructed the courtroom that on June 26, 2021, McGinley was within the firm of one other individual throughout an altercation. A person sustained what was described as ‘fairly a severe harm’ to his eye after being overwhelmed with a wheel brace.

The courtroom heard that McGinley had given the wheel brace to the assailant.

“The opposite individual has been dropped at courtroom and handled,” Sergeant Collins mentioned, including that McGinley ‘did acknowledge sure points of his interactions’ and was ‘considerably co-operative’.

On August 13, 2021, a pair had been sitting of their automotive at Pearse Highway, Letterkenny when McGinley, who was within the firm of one other individual, approached and phrases had been exchanged.

Harm was prompted to the passenger door and wing mirror of a black Audi by McGinley and the opposite individual. Roughly €250 price of injury was prompted, the courtroom heard.

Sergeant Collins mentioned McGinley was ‘considerably co-operative if not fully co-operative’.

Solicitor for McGinley, Mr Rory O’Brien, mentioned his shopper is a ‘very younger man’ who had pleaded responsible to the offences.

He mentioned his shopper is in custody and serving a sentence. The courtroom was suggested that McGinley is due for launch in Might 2025.

“He’s doing his greatest and is utilizing all out there assets,” Mr O’Brien mentioned. “He has re-engaged with training and is doing his best possible. He made worthwhile pleas in relation to each expenses. He had problem with drink and medicines, which had been launched to him at a really early stage of his life. He was related to a damaging peer group and he has contributed a reasonably reckless angle to most issues.”

Mr O’Brien mentioned McGinley was now ‘working in direction of bettering himself’.

Decide Éiteáin Cunningham convicted McGinley and sentenced him to 2 months in jail on every cost with the sentence to run concurrently.

Letterkenny man who provided wheel brace to attacker is jailed was final modified: September twenty third, 2023 by Employees Author