12 Months For This?

The attack took place on October 14, 2018 when the boy was visiting his grandparents, who lives near Barrett.

How does it take nearly six years to get to sentencing him?

Whether or not you agree with the sentence, the length of time that the justice system takes in Ireland is ridiculous. Time and money.

There’s investigation, submit file to DPP, arrange court date etc it does take time. Plus COVID happened in the middle of it and delayed some more.

I accept that Covid may have been an issue, but realistically the first three shouldn't have taken more than a month each.

No custodial sentence at all in that case.

Because they are completely different circumstances:

Jennifer Mayberry, of Tudor Lawns, Foxrock, was arrested a month after the incident, pleaded guilty to assault and received a suspended jail sentence.

She was 21 at the time of the assault and the DPP found there was no malice intended to cause such tragic injuries.

As opposed to:

This is the construction firm boss who has been jailed for hitting a 12-year-old boy with a glass bottle in the face more than 10 times and kicking him in the ribs.

The man who was with him during the attack subsequently died and Barrett later tried to falsely claim it was that other man who carried out the attack on the 12-year-old.

Barrett finally admitted he carried out the attack when he pleaded guilty last October as a jury was due to be sworn in.

It seems like a sentence you would get for the same assault on a grown adult, but against a 12yr-old it's an order of magnitude worse. What is wrong with someone who would attack a child like that?

My intention wasn't to weigh one situation against the other, rather to show how dangerous a bottle can be when used as a weapon.

You did though, when you commented that there was no custodial sentence in the example you provided. It’s not contrarianism to point out that they are completely different circumstances. I don’t think anyone is unaware how dangerous a bottle can be when used as a weapon, particularly when it’s followed up with a kick into the ribs of a child by a grown man who then tried to claim it was his friend who died had committed the act.

If you want an off topic discussion you can PM me, 

No I’m fine here thanks, this discussion is about the scumbag in the opening post who drove round to beat a child and then tried to avoid prosecution entirely by claiming it was actually his equally scumbag friend who stood by as he beat the child and told the other child to run away or he’d be next. Had he not died, he should’ve been locked up too.