Frenchman avoids jail after attacking ‘good Samaritan’

A man who punched and kicked a “good Samaritan” who was trying to help him has avoided a jail sentence.

Nicholas Freddin, aged 29, a Frenchman living in Dublin, was fighting on a city centre street after he was thrown out of a nightclub.

A passerby, Graham Hughes, came to help Freddin because Freddin and another man were rolling around on the street and he was worried they would be run over by passing traffic.