I think justice was served here.

He needed the knife to cut fruit I thought? Was that not accepted by the court?

The excuse given was to cut fruit.

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Find it particularly interesting that you refer to teen scumbags yet constantly refer to the victim as a child? He was 16, why not refer to him as a teen?

Should never have gone to trial. As clearcut a case of self defence as you will find. If a gang of things surrounded me with intent to give me a life threatening beating I would defend myself with anything I could lay my hands on and every one of us would do the same.

Pity the guards didn't put as much effort into investigating the violent criminal gang that Dunne was part of.

Is there alot of bad blood/tension between deliveroo drivers and locals around there? there was hit & run case a few months earlier to this case in which a Brazilian driver died

This. The decision of the DPP to prosecute (for murder FFS) was cowardly.

There was a time that every young lad would have a Swiss army knife on them and used them appropriately.

That was not too long ago.

This was a small pocket type knife. Not a flick knife or jagged blade that many Dublin scum use.

These delivery drivers get continuous abuse by local scum. The gardai rarely assisted and judging by reports and Garda suspensions, the gardai would not have been seen as people who you would go to for help.

The jury was very clear by exonerating him on every single count.

Justice was served

The correct verdict. I feel sorry for the Brazilian guy actually. Hopefully, it will make feral teenagers think twice before attacking and trying to steal anyones work tools. Lessons here for the gardai too that this is what can happen when feral groups are left roam free to cause trouble.

I guess some people in the area will have to learn how to cook.

I'm not saying it's right but im sure if you randomly searched a lot of those deliveroo drivers you'd be finding knives and other weapons on them. I'm sure they have no intention of using them but many will feel that their life is at risk in those areas and they have no choice. If I was doing the job myself and on my own in some of those areas I'd probably have something myself.

As far as the case goes, I think it's very difficult. I still don't really understand the events that transpired in detail despite reading a lot of the court reports. It's just very sad that the young lad died.

A correct judgement here, but no real 'winners'. I doubt the guy at the center of the case will ever forget what happened on that day, and a life was taken. I'm sure he'd rather things have ended differently than they did, thus not requiring a trial. And everyone walking away in one piece from the scuffle. (Only way I can describe it is as a 'scuffle', since I wasn't there).

I do find it very, very disturbing how the case was reported. Very much a 'this foreigner killed one of our own' kind of angle to the news reports. Didn't matter if the victim was in the wrong, and he was painted as this 'promising individual with a bright future' while the blue collar guy was painted in broad, negative strokes. Very sinister angle for news media to take. We see this in towns, villages, and cities, across the country- where the 'blow-in' is treated as the criminal, whilst the 'local guy/ gal' is treated as the hero, no matter if the latter is the one who committed a crime. But you'd expect better from reporters.

I have sympathy for his parents, and I have sympathy for the driver. But I agree with the decision made by the jury.

Or he carried the knife for the reason he said. Or he carried it in case he ended up in a bad situation not of his own making , which is common place now, and was outnumbered. Remember, his friend lost teeth and suffered a broken nose in the attack where they were outnumbered. And all because they were out trying to earn a living.

Josh Dune assaulted George Bento because George Bento defended himself and his friend from an attack by Josh Dunne's friends plus another man. If i was outnumbered like that and had a knife I would do the same and most others would too.

You seem to be forgetting that this was 3 on 2 assault which became 4 on 2 assault with other friends of the assailants waiting in the wings. Dublin is a dump full of feral gangs of kids who act like this with impunity because of a weak justice system.

We need to make parents way more responsible for the actions of their kids. Upto and including stopping any social welfare payments etc. Manners and respect cost nothing. These lads act like this because they know worst case scenario is they get a slap on the wrist. But someone fought back.

Look at Thiago Cortes. Look at the vigil his friends and colleagues held after his death and how they were treated.

Look at the lads who were harassing women in Howth which ended with one woman falling under the Dart. A slap on the wrist and the parents of one of them threatening to sue because the video footage was released. The women who they harassed should be given the names of the kids involved and then sue their families.

He had flights booked to Brazil a few days after the incident. He was a flight risk which would have been decided in court. Its not like he wasn't involved in the incident.

IMO this is how a justice system should work. His compensation should be for loss of earnings only at best.

He was locked up for 18 months because his girlfriend booked flights to Brazil.

But he was found not guilty by a jury of his peers. The powers that be did everything right. A 16 year old kid is dead.

No one saying no need for a justice system. They are saying they have had it with the peculiar brand of Dublin scumbag getting their way and the revolving door.

It's called being on remand.