Suspended sentence for girl who kicked man on ground

A teenage girl, who, while drunk on a litre of vodka, repeatedly kicked a man in the stomach while he lay on the ground and was simultaneously attacked by four others, has been given a six-month sentence.

The girl (aged 17) had been found guilty of assaulting a 23-year-old American man at Dublin’s Aston Quay, on March 13 last. Judge Bryan Smyth described the gang attack as “quite appalling”.