Man jailed for attack after pleading guilty in separate case
A Lithuanian national's suspended sentence for an "unprovoked and disgusting" attack on a Dublin man has been activated because he has since pleaded guilty to killing a fellow-national.
Gertautas Suslavicivs (aged 24), of The Green, Beaumont Woods, Beaumont and a co-accused carried out the attack on the man at Kilmore Road, Artane on November 30, 2004, one day after their arrival in Ireland.
Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court imposed a three-year suspended sentences on each of them in January 2006 for assault causing harm to the victim they punched and kicked in a drunken fury while he was on his way home from an evening in the pub during which he spoke to and had got on well with them.
Judge Delahunt activated the suspended three year sentence after prosecuting counsel, Mr Remy Farrell BL, told her that Suslavicivs had since pleaded guilty to manslaughter of a fellow Lithuanian in north Dublin on July 30, 2006 during the period of his suspension for the 2004 offence. She backdated it to July 2006.
At the January 2006 hearing, Judge Delahunt had told Suslavicivs and his accomplice that the 2004 incident was an "unprovoked attack on an innocent man who had done nothing but seek to welcome you to this country" after she learned how the victim had befriended them a day after they arrived in Ireland.
Neither of them had been in trouble before the assault, either here or in their home country.
