Marketing executive fined for attacking judge at awards ceremony

A top marketing executive, who attacked a judge at an awards ceremony at the Mansion House in Dublin, has agreed to pay E20,000 to charity to escape a criminal conviction.

Gary Brown (aged 51) with an address at Howth Road, in Clontarf in Dublin, had denied assault causing harm to John O'Connor on May 7, 2009, at the An Post Direct Marketing Awards Night in the Mansion House.