Cork teenager knocked unconscious in frenzied attack by group of six youths

Court heard the reason for the attack was that the main instigator — previously before the court — got the others to believe a completely untrue rumour that the victim had attacked a young girl

Six youths were either given suspended sentences or put on probation bonds for violent assault in Carraigaline on December 18, 2021. Picture: Larry Cummins

A Carrigaline teenager was knocked unconscious when he was the victim of a frenzied attack by a large group of young people who punched and kicked him more than 100 times in little more than a minute.

Judge Helen Boyle said on Tuesday: “This young man was kicked and punched on the ground. It was a completely disproportionate and unwarranted response to a rumour that turned out to be false — and even if it was not false there was no excuse. You are all lucky this did not end in serious injury or death.