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A MAN HAS been jailed for six years for assaulting his 75-year-old neighbor at their home and a 17-year-old woman a year earlier.
During a roadside attack on the N11 in July 2018, Dean Quigley (23) struck a young woman in the face, pulled her hair and continued to hit her while she was on the ground.
The following year he broke into his neighbor’s apartment twice. During the second attack, Quigley assaulted him, telling his victim that he would return and kill him if he told anyone what had happened.
The man’s daughter found him when she visited him five days later and was taken to hospital where he stayed for several weeks. He was treated for a hemorrhage in the brain and this left him with an increased risk of stroke, ligature marks on his neck and severe bruising on his chest.
Quigley, of Temple Road, Blackrock, Dublin, pleaded guilty in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing injury to woman on Stillorgan Road on July 5, 2018.
He also pleaded guilty to entering the 75-year-old man’s home as a trespasser and committing criminal damage on July 7, 2019, and entering his home as a trespasser and assaulting him on October 11, 2019.
Judge Karen O’Connor imposed simultaneous sentences of two years for the assault on the woman and two years for the July robbery. She imposed a six-year consecutive sentence for the second robbery and suspended the last two years on the condition that she participate in alcohol addiction treatment programs.
The court heard that in July 2019 Quigley was drunk when he kicked and knocked on the man’s door after he was denied entry, the man went to tell a neighbor what had happened, and Quigley entered his home through the door. open, taking a knife from the man. kitchen.
Gardaí was alerted and arrived to find Quigley in a drunken state.
In a statement, the man said he felt Quigley must have been waiting for him a second time in October 2019 when he returned home from dinner with his daughter. He said Quigley pushed him inside, telling the man that he had “put me in jail.”
Quigley punched him in the head, stomach and back and held him with a headlock. The man said he thought he was going to die during the assault.
“I don’t think I can get over this,” the man said in his victim impact statement. “Now I will be afraid forever. I don’t feel safe at home. “
“I can’t express how scared I was,” the man said. He said that he believed in Quigley’s threat and that he really thought he would return.
He said he did not contact anyone and went to bed until his daughter arrived five days later. He said that he was constantly afraid of something else happening and suffered with his nerves.
Quigley was out on bail for the first robbery at the time of the second offense.
Garda Detective Robert Clifford told Garrett McCormack BL, prosecuting, that in the early hours of July 5, 2018 the woman had been walking down the N11 with Quigley.
She said they had an argument that turned physical and Quigley punched her multiple times in the face and pulled her hair. He dragged her to the ground where he continued to hit her.
In her statement on the impact of the victim, which was read in court, the young woman recalled wishing that a passing car would stop and help. He said that he didn’t want to feel that helplessness and fear ever again.
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He attended a Garda station in May 2019 to file a complaint and gave Gardaí photographs of his injuries, which included a black eye, pulled hair and bruises around his neck.
Detective Garda Clifford said Quigley was charged, brought to court and pleaded guilty earlier in the course.
The woman described in her statement about the impact of the victim that she had suffered a “great deterioration” in her mental health as a result of the assault. You continue to suffer from anxiety and fear.
Quigley has 14 prior convictions, including possessing knives or items and threatening to kill or cause serious harm.
Detective Garda Clifford agreed with Marc Murphy BL, arguing that when he was sober and not abusing substances, Quigley was quite civilized.
He agreed that Quigley had gone to a Garda police station the day after being interviewed and tried to admit it, but was in no condition to be interviewed.
Murphy told Judge O’Connor that Quigley was using his time in custody quite positively. He said Quigley told him he was now drug free and was reflecting on what the future may hold from the drug cycle and antisocial behavior.
He told the court that his client had come further in custody and asked the court to take into account the positive steps he has taken regarding his mental health and addiction problems.
He said that Quigley had written a letter to the young woman expressing remorse. He asked the court to take a “holistic approach” and leave him some light at the end of the tunnel.
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