Marketing executive who attacked competition judge spared jail

A top marketing executive, who attacked a judge at an awards ceremony at the Mansion House in Dublin, has been spared a criminal record and jail sentence after paying €20,000 to charity.

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