Teen dad jailed for 14 months after judge tells him ‘stop the rot’

A judge yesterday warned a teenage father of one with alcohol and substance abuse problems to take responsibility for his own life and “stop the rot” of violence and criminality.

Along with offences of being threatening and abusive, intoxication, and a theft, Stanley Wright, aged 19, carried out unprovoked assaults resulting in injury, on people in West Cork.

Some of the offences were committed while Wright, from Togher Village, Dunmanway, had received a sentence, suspended for two years, for an assault.