Cork man allegedly assaulted in search for missing phone

It later emerged the phone had not been taken in the first place but was underneath a jacket

Judge McNulty said the case would be finalised on December 21 and that Mr Robinson was to have €2,000 in court on that day.

A man who was set upon by a group of four men outside a bar had his coat searched after the assault in the mistaken belief that he had stolen a phone which it later emerged had never been taken in the first place.

Conor Robinson, aged 23, and of Pintu Shergar, Sillerhtane, Dunmanway in Co Cork, pleaded not guilty to assault causing harm, assault, and using or engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour during an incident on Pearse St in Clonakilty almost two years ago.