Former champ Damaen Kelly given community service
Posted: 25 Apr 2012, 11:46
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0425/boxer- ... rvice.html
"Former world boxing champion Damaen Kelly has been ordered to undertake 120 hours of community service after being convicted of assaulting his former wife.
A community-based penalty was deemed appropriate in this case Kelly must also serve two years on probation.
The 39-year-old former WBF flyweight champion, from Monagh Road in Belfast, initially admitted assaulting the woman during a drunken row at the couple's home in April 2009.
The attack happened in front of their youngest child. Kelly was acquitted by a jury last month of a charge of wounding his former wife with intent to cause her grievous bodily harm.
Freeing the father-of-four, Judge Gordon Kerr said that while the courts would normally consider a custodial sentence, a community-based penalty was appropriate in this case."
Sad to see this in the news today. Always thought he seemed like a nice guy outside the ropes who just came up short on a few occasions to reeling in the bigger titles, no defending what happened here though drink fuelled or not.
"Former world boxing champion Damaen Kelly has been ordered to undertake 120 hours of community service after being convicted of assaulting his former wife.
A community-based penalty was deemed appropriate in this case Kelly must also serve two years on probation.
The 39-year-old former WBF flyweight champion, from Monagh Road in Belfast, initially admitted assaulting the woman during a drunken row at the couple's home in April 2009.
The attack happened in front of their youngest child. Kelly was acquitted by a jury last month of a charge of wounding his former wife with intent to cause her grievous bodily harm.
Freeing the father-of-four, Judge Gordon Kerr said that while the courts would normally consider a custodial sentence, a community-based penalty was appropriate in this case."
Sad to see this in the news today. Always thought he seemed like a nice guy outside the ropes who just came up short on a few occasions to reeling in the bigger titles, no defending what happened here though drink fuelled or not.