Search Results for 'Sean Acton'

A 21-year-old with 18 road traffic convictions who is currently off the road now works with his father in the car business, his solicitor told Galway District Court, where he picked up two more traffic convictions, bringing his total to 20.

A young man who filmed an intimate act he was engaging in with a woman on Snapchat, and then shared it on Snapchat, tried to apologise to his victim on Snapchat, his solicitor told Galway Court. He added that his client got no response.

An 18-year-old girl spat into the face of an arresting Garda when she was being arrested for being drunk and a nuisance at Eyre Square.

A 20-year old father of two picked up yet another driving disqualification for driving without insurance when he came before Judge James Faughnan at Tuam District Court this week.

A HUSBAND and wife team who, a Judge said, appeared to “be going around in consort” on joint enterprise thieving trips, were given heavy suspended sentences to keep them in line when they appeared before Galway District Court this week.

A DEFENDANT who pleaded guilty to a long list of charges, mainly thefts from city businesses, had 100 previous convictions and this could not be ignored no matter how difficult his background was, Judge Valerie Corcoran said when sentencing him to 16 months in prison.

A man was put up to thefts from a city shop because he had gambling debts, his solicitor told Galway District Court.

A JUDGE told a man found in possession of cocaine that she believed everybody deserved one chance, but warned him that if he came back before her on a similar charge, he would find himself with a serious criminal record.

A JUDGE told a defendant who pledged to live in Waterford with his father, that he had to understand that one of the conditions on which she was suspending his prison sentence was that he “keep out of this neck of the woods.”

A MAN described by a Judge as a bully for abusing and threatening a Council Community Warden was given a five-month prison sentence, suspended for two years on strict behavioural conditions, when his case came before Judge Vincent Deane at a special sitting of Tuam District Court.