Alanna Quinn Idris took to the stand at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today to outline the ongoing impact on her life of the attack on 30 December 2021.
AN 18-YEAR-OLD woman who was blinded in one eye in an organised attack by a gang of four youths has told a court that her confidence and her chance of having a normal life have been destroyed.
Reading from her victim impact statement Ms Quinn Idris said the life she was supposed to live was taken away from her before she turned 18. Ms Quinn Idris has since had numerous reconstructive surgeries to her right eye socket and a bone graft taken from her hip. She has lost vision permanently in one eye and is likely to need a prosthetic replacement, according to a medical report submitted to court.
Ms Quinn Idris thanked the local community for their thoughts and prayers and the local gardaí for their hard work, expressing the hope that this work will result in her attackers facing appropriate consequences for their actions. Gda Murray said that Ms Quinn Idris had been in Liffey Valley Shopping Centre on the day in question and got a bus to Ballyfermot with her friend Louis O’Sullivan.
Lyons then shouted, “stab him, lads” and jumped over Ms Quinn Idris as all three continued attacking, punching and kicking O’Sullivan, also striking him seven times with the saddle and eight times with the hurl. A knife was later found at the scene but was not attributed to Lyons. Lyons has no previous convictions. The court heard it was his 18th birthday on the day of the attack and that he had been in a friend’s house when one of the suspects phoned him.
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