A teenager who took part in what a judge termed a “savage attack” that left a seventeen-year-old girl blind in one eye has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
Darragh Lyons (19) of Weir View, Glenaulin, Chapelizod, Dublin 20, pleaded guilty to assault causing serious harm and violent disorder on Ballyfermot Road on December 30, 2021. Alanna Quinn Idris, now aged 18, was hit in the face with the saddle of an electric scooter by another person, fracturing her eye socket and leaving her permanently blind in her right eye.
In a victim impact statement delivered at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court yesterday Ms Quinn Idris said her life as she knew it “came to an abrupt end” on the night of the attack. “I will never be the woman I was supposed to be – she died that night. Sometimes I wish I never woke up from when I was hit with that object,” Ms Quinn Idris told the court.
