No phone found on victim of fatal attack

A man who was killed after an allegation that he stole a phone did not have a phone on him when found unconscious on a Tallaght footbridge.

A sergeant gave the evidence yesterday during the sentence hearing of five Dubliners, who admit to Dale Creighton’s manslaughter on New Year’s Day morning 2014. Two others are being sentenced for lesser offences arising out of the same incident.

The court heard there had been an allegation that the 20-year-old had stolen a woman’s mobile phone.