Five years jail for assault on riot garda

Thug's attack on officer 'live streamed'

- BY SONYA MCLEAN

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

The court heard that the assault on Brendan Eddery was live-streamed and his 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 that 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.