Alanna Quinn Idris said her life as she knew it “came to an abrupt end” on the night of the attack.
A TEENAGER WHO took part in what a judge termed a “savage attack” that left a 17-year-old girl blind in one eye has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
“I will never be the woman I was supposed to be – she died that night. Sometimes I wish I never woke up from when I was hit with that object,” Quinn Idris told the court.Judgement In a judgement delivered today, Judge Martin Nolan condemned what he said was a pre-meditated, savage attack that involved collaboration between the young men who perpetrated it.
The court heard that Quinn Idris was knocked unconscious after she was hit in the side of the face with the saddle of an electric scooter wielded by another of the accused. “I feel embarrassed, mortified and heartbroken. I cannot look in the mirror without entirely disassociating and at times I’m overcome with flashbacks,” she said, adding that she did not look or feel like the same person.
A number of the gang were armed with a hurl, the saddle of an e-scooter and a knife, while both victims were unarmed, the court heard. Two of the accused had phoned Lyons and the fourth accused who joined them as they waited on the far side of the road from Quinn Idris and O’Sullivan. There were some verbal exchanges before the gang, with Lyons leading the fray, crossed the road and punched Quinn Idris once on the side of her face, causing her to fall back into a wall.
Quinn Idris was taken by ambulance to St James Hospital with a broken eye socket and then transferred to the Eye and Ear Hospital where she underwent emergency surgery. A medical report handed in to court stated that her eye was fully depressed and she has lost her vision permanently and is likely to need a prosthetic eye, the court heard.
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