A person who spat in a Garda Sergeant’s face after being caught red-handed breaking right into a Co Donegal faculty has been jailed for 16 months.
Brendan O’Neill precipitated €6,668 to St Columba’s Secondary Faculty in Stranorlar after he broke his approach into the roof of the college.
The 34-year-old accused burrowed his approach into the college by discarding slates after which breaking by means of a ceiling earlier than entering into the primary constructing.
O’Neill, who has 86 earlier convictions, was caught when the principal arrived on the faculty and located the burglar on the premises.
Gardai have been known as and arrested the father-of-three who was taken to Letterkenny Garda Station to be interviewed.
When being processed, O’Neill spat within the face of Garda Sergeant Paul Forrestal.
O’Neill appeared at a particular sitting of Letterkenny District Courtroom the place he pleaded responsible to fees of housebreaking, legal harm and assault.
O’Neill, of School Avenue, in Mountmellick, Co Laois, is charged that on October 14, 2023 at St Columba’s School, Drumboe Avenue, Stranorlar, having entered a constructing often known as St Columba’s School as a trespasser did commit an arrestable offence to wit legal harm therein.
On the identical date and native he’s additionally charged that he did with out lawful excuse harm property, to wit, roof slates, the roof, the inner plaster-board ceilings, inner attic firewalls, inner hallway ceilings belonging to St Columba’s School intending to break such property or being reckless as whether or not such property could be broken.
On October fifteenth, 2023, at Letterkenny Garda Station, he’s additionally charged that he assaulted Garda Paul Forrestal.
The court docket heard that O’Neill had been jailed on plenty of events after being discovered responsible of a variety of offences together with public order, assault, possession of an offensive weapon and legal harm.
His solicitor, Mr Patsy Gallagher, mentioned his consumer absolutely accepts his wrongdoing and on the evening was on alcohol and a variety of non-prescription medicine.
He added that the rationale he broke into the college was as a result of he was attempting to flee a 3rd celebration.
Mr Gallagher mentioned O’Neill had not been as fortunate as many and left faculty early saying “all he noticed was medicine and a sure angle in the direction of authority.”
Nonetheless, since this incident and going into custody he has been a mannequin prisoner, claiming that jail officers say there’s a “relaxed method” in the direction of O’Neill.
Mr Gallagher mentioned his consumer was already in custody and had been since October sixteenth final.
He requested Choose Ciaran Liddy to contemplate doing two issues for his consumer with a view to give him some hope and these have been to backdate his sentence and likewise to droop a part of it.
After contemplating the sentence, Choose Liddy sentenced O’Neill to a complete of sixteen months in jail comprising of 10 months for housebreaking and 6 months for the assault of Sergeant Forrestal.
He backdated the sentence and likewise ordered the accused to attend the Probation Providers when he’s launched from jail.
Burglar who spat in Garda’s face after faculty break-in jailed for 16 months was final modified: December 2nd, 2023 by
