All-Star Limerick hurler Kyle Hayes walked free from court today after receiving fully suspended jail sentences following his convictions for committing “dangerous” violent disorder
inside and outside a nightclub, during which he attacked a young carpenter who sustained serious facial injuries.
The judge imposed a suspended two-year sentence on Hayes for violent disorder outside the Icon nightclub on the morning of October 28, 2019, and a concurrent 18-month suspended sentence for violent disorder inside the nightclub on the same morning. Judge Sheehan said the serious injuries to Mr McCarthy had arisen out of the violence by Hayes and others on the night. Two gardai gave evidence n the trial that they saw Kyle Hayes kicking a male on the street but Judge Sheehan said this man appeared to have been another man and not Mr McCarthy.
After pursuing Mr McCarthy, who was bleeding from his head, outside the club, Kyle Hayes again “aggressively” approached him and told him he would “dig the head off him”. The judge said the jury, in finding Hayes not guilty of the stand-alone charge of assaulting Mr McCarthy causing him harm, had “obviously taken into account” that there was no CCTV evidence of the alleged assault outside the nightclub; that gardai had said Hayes was kicking a male who was not Mr McCarthy who was lying on the street; and that Mr McCarthy who had given evidence that Kyle Hayes and others had “kicked” and “stamped” him on the ground, acknowledged there had also been another male...
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