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Assault victim feels he’s gotten no justice after two men's convictions overturned on appeal

Dec 16, 2021 13:18 By radiokerrynews
Assault victim feels he’s gotten no justice after two men's convictions overturned on appeal
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The victim of an assault feels he’s gotten no justice after two men had their convictions overturned on appeal.

The men received convictions and fines for the assault earlier this year.

They admitted assaulting Dan McCarthy, causing him harm, on Church Lane, Killarney on October 22nd, 2018.

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Their appeals came before Judge Terence O'Sullivan last week; he applied the Probation Act, leaving the accused without a conviction. Dan McCarthy says people still taunt him and confront him about the assault, as if he was the one who did wrong.

Mr McCarthy, who wants to take the case further, says it totally changed his life:

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