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Man sentenced to nine years over fatal one-punch attack on Galway man in Perth

The 23-year-old passed away after ten days in hospital.

Updated 10.45am

THE MAN WHO was convicted of the manslaughter of Irishman Thomas Keaney in a one-punch attack was sentenced to nine years in prison today.

Keaney, a 23-year-old from Galway, passed away in hospital 10 days after being punched outside a kebab shop.

During his trial the jury heard that that a fight broke out after a chair being used by Abbas Yahya Al Jrood was taken by people in Keaney’s group outside Euro Kebabs.

Al Jrood said Keaney’s death was a “tragic accident” and that he had only pushed him using a technique he learned as part of his training to become a security officer.

However, the prosecution said Keaney was punched and “would not have seen it coming as he was snuck up on” by Al Jrood.

The Galway man fell backwards after the punch and hit his head on the ground, causing a severe brain injury.

Australia’s ABC News reports that Justice Ralph Simmonds described the attack as “unprovoked, unexpected, sudden and forceful”.

While he accepted that the punch was “impulsive and spur of the moment” he said the fact Al Jrood did not stop to assist Keaney when he fell to the ground was an aggravating factor.

Keaney’s family listened to the sentencing via video link.

Before his passing, Keaney spoke to his family on the phone on Christmas Eve in 2013.

His family said it was a “senseless act” that had devastated their family.

First published 08.40am

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    Mute Paul Culligan
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    Feb 25th 2018, 10:18 AM

    That would be ideal for Ireland if it had front and rear .50 calibre machine guns, hedgehog mortor pads, Bouncing Betty and Claymore mine perimetre outlay, smoke generators, surface to air missile systems, priority target HUD, ridged Kevlar body finishing and the makings of a cup of tea.

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    Feb 25th 2018, 10:40 AM

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    Mute phil
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    Feb 25th 2018, 3:01 PM

    @Paul Culligan: You play Call of Duty too.

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    Mute ballbreaker
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    Feb 25th 2018, 10:24 AM

    How is this even news? These mobile banks already exist especially in the west

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    Mute Michael Ruane
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    Feb 25th 2018, 10:20 AM

    They had this in mayo in the 1980s.

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    Feb 25th 2018, 10:44 AM

    @Michael Ruane: Our IRA friends targeted them.

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    Feb 25th 2018, 10:34 AM

    Another bank crash waiting to happen.

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    Feb 25th 2018, 6:46 PM

    @Ala Alowska:
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    Mute ed w
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    Feb 25th 2018, 10:50 AM

    Ulster bank fo the same on donegal Shame that they won’t let you pat a cheque at the counter in the branch anymore. Love the way banks treat customers as an annoyance

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    Mute David Grey
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    Feb 25th 2018, 12:39 PM

    Hardly ground breaking news, didn’t they used to do the same here with mobile banks in the 80′s?
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    Mute Paul Kelly
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    Feb 25th 2018, 11:02 AM

    Where did the Germans get that brilliant idea?

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    Feb 25th 2018, 11:44 AM

    Piecemeal commitment to personal customers. At a major high street branch of a big bank in the UK recently and they had a grand total of 2 tellers servicing a long queue, while trying to herd people towards self service machines. Normal account holders are considered an inconvenience now.

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    Feb 25th 2018, 6:49 PM

    @Shane McGettrick:
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    Feb 25th 2018, 10:33 AM

    Kinihans and Hutch’s etc would cream themselves with this soft target

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    Feb 25th 2018, 12:05 PM

    @Tom Harpur: there’s no cash on board so I doubt that they’d be bothered ..

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    Feb 25th 2018, 10:18 AM

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    Feb 25th 2018, 10:29 AM

    What they don’t tell you is that you must pay for every transaction. Cash withdrawal, cheque lodgement, money transfer etc.

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    Feb 25th 2018, 10:34 AM

    @Rear Admiral: So like a bank then?

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    Feb 25th 2018, 1:38 PM

    @Rear Admiral: The rise of the cyrptocurrencies peer to peer transactions with no middle diddle men and women is the future, a cashless society is on the way it will take a while yet to sort out the glitches in the systems ,but the Banksters are not happy about the rise of the cyrpto’s

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    Feb 25th 2018, 2:23 PM

    @Robert O’Rourke: Does your bank charge you to take out money? I would change if I were you.

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    Feb 25th 2018, 8:49 PM

    @Rear Admiral: Transaction fees are quite normal.

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    Feb 25th 2018, 2:09 PM

    This was normal in west cork in the 70s

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    Feb 25th 2018, 11:54 AM

    I’d rather see a mobile brothel come to town with “Die – Sparkass” on the side of it. And “Anything You Need.” Would that circumnavigate the law on criminalising the punter? …in rural (and urban, of course,) Ireland mobile bonking means a bonk in a bunk in the back of a truck visiting different towns.

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    Feb 25th 2018, 2:47 PM

    Believe it or not but the Mobile Bank of Ireland used to stop at our house every week on its way to the village in the seventies.That what I call service .

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    Feb 25th 2018, 1:57 PM

    So instead of robbing a bank you can hijack the bank instead lol.
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    Feb 25th 2018, 12:24 PM

    We have them already in Towns across Cavan , are you brain dead

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    Feb 25th 2018, 1:58 PM

    @Oliver: Are they not called boats lol.

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    Feb 26th 2018, 8:49 PM

    GTA just got real, money on wheels.. Genius

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