A criminal with 124 previous convictions needed money for drugs when he knocked a passerby from his e-scooter and stabbed him seven times with a pair of scissors, the Central Criminal Court has heard.
Christopher Coakley, 31, who is a cousin of Kinahan cartel murder victim Derek Coakley Hutch, pleaded guilty in March to intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm at Seville Place, Dublin, on January 28, 2021.
He was previously charged with attempting to murder and rob his victim and producing scissors in the course of an assault. At a sentencing hearing today (TUE) Karl Finnegan BL, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, said that a nolle prosequi will be entered in relation to the attempted murder charge and asked the judge to take the robbery and production charges into account.
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