5 years for riot garda assault

Thug's attack on officer was 'live-streamed'

- BY SONYA MCLEAN

A MAN was jailed yesterday for five-and-a-half years for his role in assaulting a Garda sergeant during the Dublin riots.

The court heard that the assault on Sgt Brendan Eddery by Thomas Fox, 22, was live-streamed and the officer's wife and teenage daughter later received videos of the attack.

Sgt Eddery said in his victim impact statement that when he saw a number of men running towards him that night he decided "on principle not to yield to bullies, a mob".

He said the group's "only goal was random violence and intimidation" before he described his patrol car being set alight.

Fox initially denied it was him in the footage the gardai showed him and claimed: "I just stood around in town." He later accepted that it was him.