Chinese men convicted of stabbing garda after foiled robbery attempt

TWO Chinese men have been convicted of stabbing one garda and acquitted of causing serious harm to another who had helped to foil their robbery attempt on fellow nationals about three years ago.

Xiang Cheng, aged 25, and Qian Cheng, aged 28, both of no fixed abode, were found guilty by a jury on day seven of the trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of assaulting Garda James Hendrick causing him harm at Main Street, Raheny, Co Dublin, on July 13, 2005. The jury found them not guilty on a second charge of intentionally or recklessly causing Garda David Comer serious harm on the same occasion. They had denied both these charges and have pleaded guilty previously to aggravated burglary and the false imprisonment of Ms Xiao Mei Ma, Ms Ju Liu Yong and Mr Yu Ting on the same occasion.

Judge Tony Hunt remanded them in custody for sentence later. The jury reached its verdicts following five hours and 48 minutes of deliberation and after spending one night in a hotel.