Men high on laughing gas assaulted woman walking home alone from work

Judge said pair, 'for no reason I can see, maybe because they were off their heads on drugs', started to attack the woman who was alone and vulnerable.

Defence told the court that both defendants had been inhaling balloons of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, on the night. 

Two men who were high on laughing gas when they carried out a random unprovoked assault on a woman who was walking home from work have been told by a judge there are “some crimes you can’t walk away from”.

On the evening of July 18, 2021, two men ran up behind the woman and pushed her to the ground on Seamus Ennis Rd, Finglas, north Dublin. One man began to punch her from the left and the right.