Three-year sentence for man who attacked teen

A Swords "thug" who punched a 16-year-old boy in the face, knocking him to the ground because the victim had been looking at him, has been sentenced to three years in prison by Judge Frank O'Donnell.

Jonathan Gormley (aged 26) of The Close, Melrose Park, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting the teenager causing him harm at The Green, also in Melrose Park, on July 18, 2006. His 42 previous convictions included criminal damage and road traffic offences.