Dublin woman avoids jail after attack on the Dart

A woman who broke a woman’s eye socket on the Dart has avoided a custodial sentence after the victim wrote to the judge asking him not to jail her assailant.

Leanne Goode, aged 21, of Lissadell Green, Drimnagh, Dublin, pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting Paula McCarthy causing her harm on the Dart on July 13, 2013.

She also pleaded not guilty to assaulting Richard McCarthy, breaching the peace, and being intoxicated in public on the same date.