SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR SCHOOLGIRL ASSAULT IN EYRE SQUARE

Date Published: 13-May-2008

A Mervue teenager who repeatedly punched two school girls in the face as they got off a bus in Eyre Square, was given two suspended three-month prison sentences at Galway District Court this week.When 18 year old Jayne Miller of 41 St. James’ Crescent, Mervue, first appeared before the court last February, she had denied assaulting both 14-year-olds on April 3 last year.She claimed she could not remember doing it. Judge Fahy sentenced her to three months in prison for the first assault and imposed a consecutive, three-month prison sentence for the second assault.