Pair who assaulted NUIG student avoid jail

Galway Bay fm newsroom – A man and a woman who assaulted an NUIG student on the night he was fatally injured while socialising in Westmeath, escaped a jail sentence today. 20 year-old, Andrew Dolan, an NUIG biomedical student from Carrick-on-Shannon, received fatal injuries during an assault on Pearse Street in Mullingar on December 23rd, 2011. He died in Beaumont Hospital on January 1, 2012. 21-year-old Jessica Hughes of Greenfield Heights, Rathwire, Killucan, Co Westmeath and 24 year old Patrick Daly, Mulphedder, Clonard, Co Meath were acquitted of Andrew Dolan's manslaughter when tried last January. Although acquitted of manslaughter, the jury found Patrick Daly guilty of assault causing harm and Jessica Hughes guilty on a lesser charge of assault in relation to the attack on Mr Dolan on December 23rd. In sentencing at Mullingar Circuit Court, Judge Anthony Hunt noted that neither had any previous convictions and both were unlikely to reoffend. He sentenced Daly to 240 hours community service in lieu of two years in prison. Hughes was sentenced to 160 hours of community service in lieu of five months in prison. The post Pair who assaulted NUIG student avoid jail appeared first on Galway Bay FM.