Victim of dancefloor assault urges judge not to jail assailants

Man was knocked unconscious and lost two front teeth in unprovoked attack

The assault happened at the Secret Garden nightclub of Rearden's Bar in Cork City. File picture: Dan Linehan

A young man who was knocked out on a nightclub dancefloor by two Cobh men told the judge he bears no ill-will towards his attackers.

Jacob Kelly-Wilmot, of College Drive, College Manor, Cobh, Co Cork, and Seán Thomas, of Hartland’s Point, Cobh, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing harm to 21-year-old Darragh Cronin at the Secret Garden nightclub of Rearden’s on November 6, 2022.