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A DUBLIN TEENAGER has been sentenced to four and half years for the burglary of a students’ house and an assault during which he stood on the victim’s head several times.
One witness described Scott Cunningham (18) as dancing on the victim’s head, while another man was heard shouting “kill him, kill him”.
He was arrested for the burglary after gardaí used the “where’s my iPhone” app to track a stolen phone to Cunningham’s home.
Cunningham of Kilbarron Park, Kilmore pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to burglary and taking a mobile phone at Beaumont Road, Beaumont on 27 January 2014.
He also pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to Felipe Loughran on Westmoreland Street on 8 September 2014. He has 15 previous convictions, including one for burglary.
Judge Martin Nolan suspended the final 18 months of the sentence.
Part of masked gang
He described the assault as vicious and said Mr Loughran sustained the injuries that would have been expected from the attack. He accepted that Cunningham was not the ringleader in the burglary.
The court heard that Cunningham and an accomplice broke into the house on Beamount Road, having removed a rear patio door. One of the female students woke to find a masked man at her door before she and the other students locked themselves into another bedroom.
During the burglary Cunningham told the student to “shut the fuck up” before a mobile phone was taken.
Gardaí investigating the burglary used the “Find my iPhone” app on the stolen phone to trace it back to Cunningham’s home. During a subsequent search they discovered the teenager asleep in his bedroom with another youth, while the phone was hidden under a pile of mattresses.
Cunningham was arrested, interviewed and released on bail.
Assault
Garda Frank Johnson told Diarmuid Collins BL, prosecuting, that the following September Mr Loughran spotted an argument between Cunningham, his brother Calvin (21), a woman and a cyclist and followed the group “out of curiosity”.
He said a number of times various members of the group told Mr Loughran to “fuck off”.
Calvin Cunningham then approached Mr Loughran and punched him in the face before Scott “spear tackled” him to the ground and stamped on his head three times.
A witness to the assault, who had been working in a nearby Londis, described Scott Cunningham as dancing on the victim’s head while another man shouted “kill him, kill him”.
Bad injuries
Mr Loughran passed out and was later treated in hospital for a fractured nose and a badly swollen eye which he could not see out for a few days.
Calvin Cunningham is due to be sentenced before Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after he admitted his role in the offence.
Gda Johnson said Cunningham was later arrested and claimed he had been acting in self-defence after the victim attacked his brother.
A victim impact report from Mr Loughran stated he is “nervous going into town”.
Anne Marie Lawlor BL, defending told Judge Nolan that her client has been on medication since he was six years old to treat ADHD but said he stop taking the tablets because of “health complications”.
She said his mother was a drug addict and his father brought him up. He started to abuse both prescribed medication and illegal drugs and was smoking heroin at the time.
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He should have got 10. Nasty piece of work by the sounds of it
This is what neo darwinist/neo liberal capitalism does to society. Makes people only see others as animals.
Got to love it when people get a wee bit of political nonsense from a story like this. You’re a nob, Coddler.
What’s “neo darwinism”?
Jesues Waffler! That is your most desperate one yet
This is what happens when there is little incentive to not commit crime. He’ll be out in a year, and some poor young lad will be another victim
Mark I’m not here to educate, merely to state my opinion.
Seriously, what the f*ck is “neo darwinism”??
Coddler if AAA stand for young thugs dancing on people’s heads as an acceptable action just because they were not born with a yacht in the front garden I’m sorry but there won’t be a vote for your lot from me.
Any one how dances on another persons head is less than an animal, infact the bile I clean from the sewerage shore in my back garden is more useful to society than this man
Sigh. Sometimes I think I’m the only adult here.
Thats antiestablishdarwintarianism!!!
Dirtbag and using ADHD as an excuse as to why he might have done this is despicable. His council should be ashamed of themselves for trying to use this to get him off.
Coddler from this and previous comments is a member of this new age ‘I think I’m educated and entitled to say things because I’m right and people need to listen to me because I’m smart and opinionated and respect what I say’ era. Where they generate their knowledge mainly through reading articles online. Utter tripe that comes out of these morons online these days is weird and very very sad.
We’re living in a strange era.
@ Coddler Rooney , Neo Darwinism … Any and every form of Darwinism views humans as animals , there is a difference between calling (comparing , to)someone an animal due to their primal aggressive behaviour and acknowledging that we are animals just like every other species .
If anything liberalism gives rights to people not take them away ( gay rights & rights for minority ethnicities etc)
Yes capitalism causes the formation of class systems which can cause prejudice but that is the only part of your argument that holds any weight , it doesn’t matter if he is working class or middle class that is irrelevant , he assaulted a man because he was fleeing a crime scene and could be identified by the victim following him .
Any person that puts someone in the hospital in such a way is animalistic .
Sigh…. Look, lots of people are not happy with the government, lots of people are not happy with our welfare system, health system and justice system, but for crying out can one news story not have people commenting their political drivel when it has nothing to do with a political story!!!!
Rant over.
@waffler Rooney, you’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel now.
Jees don’t encourage him !
Is that the real coddler? used to only see him on water or political articles. Looks like its someone takin the piss to me.
Coddler’s page has been trolled, I’ll warrant
If judge Nolan accepts that the thug was not the ringleader did he ask our young ADHD friend who was? And was the ringleader prosecuted?
Sometimes I think everyone here is an adult apart from you Waffler…
Avina all I can do is put forward my beliefs. If people want to reject the truth and live in a carefully constructed right wing anti utopia that’s up to them.
Eoin – a very astute observation.
National Geographic ran an interesting article recently along the lines of this being the age of disinformation and ‘anti-science’. It postulated that there has been a general dumbing-down of the population primarily because there’s now so much unverified junk on the internet that people are prepared to accept without question, whilst being happy to reject out-of-hand scientific explanations backed by hard evidence.
Ironic that what should have been the ‘Age of Information’ has actually had the opposite effect.
Do you even know what Neo-Darwinism is Coddler, because it sure as hell doesn’t make any sense in the context of your comment.
Malachi, you might be the “knob ” if you haven’t sussed this shitty imposter.
It’s not Coddler! He’s been trolled
Say what you will about Coddler, but he/she holds their position honestly, seeks to defend it, and doesn’t hit below the belt from what I’ve seen on here. Then again, I don;t routinely read Coddler’s posts anymore unless they are addressed to me or relatively brief.
My comments make sense to those familiar with world history.
Pontius, coddler regularly insults people who don’t bow to his left wing views. if that’s not hitting below the belt I don’t know what is
I guarantee to you this isn’t Coddler, and I don’t even know the man, but I give up after this
Rashers, am I supposed to keep up with all the drama/fake accounts on the Journal? I saw a post that made no sense, and I criticised it. Sue me.
“Our attempts to remind them of reason won’t get us that far.”
You could be right Stephen – the usual modus operandi (reams of copy & paste) is conspicuously absent….
Will the real Coddler please stand up…
Avina – how ironic. I’m sitting here searching for that program/documentary you’ve referred to. Something to look forward to watching tonight. Thank you!
Maybe doubly ironic – it was a printed article in the National Geographic magazine!
You’re in luck – the full article:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/science-doubters/achenbach-text
Your an idiot
*you’re
Coddler Rooney – you are truly awake I like you :)
Last 18 months suspended. WHY!!
Coddler you keep spouting your crap and please keep the AAA profile pic , every comment you make on here erodes that 1% vote share a little bit more
While you think your super intelligent and a cut above us all , the amount of red thumbs you gather shows what the people think of you and the AAA
Keep going with your copy cut and paste crap , your doing more harm then good .
Was coddler always trolling himself? God I’m confused. It’s like an Andy Kaufman movie around here. Geez!
Definitely 2 Coddlers – the new one has replaced the lower case L with an upper case I so the twitter handle appears the same…..
I’m sorry, but that was not assault. That was attempted murder and should have been treated as such. The justice system in this country is broken.
This sub-human should have for at least 10 years without remission, really needs rebooting!
I’ve met people with worse upbringings than that who haven’t felt the need to break into houses or dance on people’s heads.
Might aswell cut and paste names into a template at this stage.
___ had __ previous convictions, judge ruled it to be a vicious/serious crime and so of course handed him a sentence of ___ suspending ___ to ensure he/she would be back out in the community terrorising people in no time.
These people should be sterilised and prevented from reproducing.
Another example of our so called “justice system” a violent toe rag who tried to kill someone gets 3 years in prison (actual prison time ~2 years 9 months) He should be locked up for at least 5 years.
The ADHD defence makes its utterly predictable appearance.
10 previous convictions at 18?????????? Jesus Wept.
Skumbag, glad of the outcome.
He’ll be out in less than 2 years, you’ll see
If he does, hopefully he’ll brake into my house and I’ll dance on his head with the soundtrack of DIrty Dancing in the background..
So this filthy cream cracker gets 4 1/2 years with 1 1/2 suspended from judge nolan??? Anyone remember the fella a few years ago that got 6 years for labelling garlic as apples? “Judge Nolan said what Begley did was grave and he was imposing a sentence based on the principles of punishment and deterrence to others who may attempt similar schemes.” Who does this judge think is the greater danger to society? A fella in his 50′s with no previous convictions who dodged paying tax but paid it all back OR skumbag who assaults and robs at will, 15 convictions at age 18? I know who i would rather meet down d dark alley
Skumbag hope he’s taught a good lesson behind bars
Justice is seriously overrated for some reason by judges in this country. Must always accept excuses for the defendant. Never a thought for victims. Just mention how it was terrible for them but don’t punish the defendant. Wtf
This is Ireland where the “justice” system has more concern and sympathy for the criminal than the victim.
No wonder people are starting to take the law into their own hands which will only makes things worse
CSI style investigation by the gardai and then the judge blows it by suspending 18 months of the sentence. Bet the gardai were left wondering…what the point!
And with his name and address published it would be very easy to follow up on him. I would have used find my iPhone before then contacting the cops rather than have the cops use it. Then I’d know where he lived before the cops did. Soon as I had that info is them go straight to the cops with it.
After I went to the cops I’d then begin to stake the guy out with view to making sure he was too scared to hang around, or come back and deliver threats to those living in the house. I’d sleep more easily after it. He’d be lucky if I didn’t smack his arms and legs with a hammer, cos that’s exactly what id be thinking.
Anyone found to be dancing on someone’s head should be charged with attempted murder. Are the judges in this country permanently drunk; wtf.
rookie mistake everyone uses trackers now. easy to turn off. but if u go to cops and say you have the location of a stolen phone they will do nothing you have to call over with the baseball bat yourself
I made preparations a few years ago, in case I get burgled. It doesn’t the involve the Gardai, or the courts, but it will get me justice, and it will stop the burglar from ever doing it again. It’s a choice to break into someone’s family home. It has a big impact on the victims, and so big consequences are justified.
At least there is Hell…
News to me!
Everyone needs something to believe in, lol.
Unfortunately he will be probably out in 12 months.
so nice to hear that somebody’s got caught by gards. i hope he picks up soap for the rest of his time in jail
Soft sentence for the little Knacker
Why the fcuk were the last 18 months suspended?! Just because he plead guilty does not justify that!
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