2016-04-08
Recovering addict who pointed knife at flatmate avoids jail
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Apologising in court, Mannion said, "If I could have taken the kettle off [my girlfriend], I would have…I wasn't thinking right." His girlfriend is due to be sentenced for the assault in May. He sentenced him to a suspended six month sentence on a number of conditions, including that he be of good behaviour and pay a €100 bond.