Young Cork man avoids jail for unprovoked 'brutal beating' at Cork hotel

The judge noted that the defendant paid €10,000 compensation

Lee Kelly Obei pleaded guilty to committing a violent disorder with other persons at Oriel House Hotel, Ballincollig, County Cork, on March 12, 2023, and a second charge of assault causing harm to the injured party who was aged around 20.

A young man who carried out a brutal beating of another man in an unprovoked attack in Ballincollig was given a three-year suspended sentence after a week remanded in custody pending sentence.

Judge Sinead Behan said: “This was a very nasty assault where the injured party was scared for his wellbeing. He did not taunt these men or do anything to upset them.”