Lecturer avoids jail for on-pitch assault

A FRIENDLY soccer game came to a violent end when a lecturer assaulted an engineer, causing him serious injuries, a court heard.

After a number of hearings at Limerick Circuit Court, Frederic Royall who pleaded guilty to assaulting Hooman Reyhani at a sports complex at the University of Limerick, was yesterday bound to the peace for three years and put on probation.

Judge Carroll Moran said Dr Reyhani had been treated in a disgraceful manner by Royall.