Police received a report from Wetherspoons in Enniskillen of two men fighting with broken glasses.
A 47-year-old Enniskillen man who called himself ‘the king of the gypsies’ has been bound over to keep the peace for two years for the sum of £1000 after a birthday assault on a police officer.
Brian Reilly of Oakfield Court was convicted of assault on police, resisting police and disorderly behaviour at Enniskillen Magistrates Court.
The prosecutor outlined that on December 12, 2014 at 7.30pm police received a report from Wetherspoons in Enniskillen of two men fighting with broken glasses. When police arrived they were told the two men had left, one in a silver vehicle.
Police were informed that Reilly, one of the two men involved in the incident was walking in Enniskillen town centre with his top off. When police carried checks of the vehicle’s owner’s address they arrived at Beech Hill, Cavanaleck and were flagged down by a woman in a car who said her husband was in the back of the silver Seat Toledo and wouldn’t get out. He then stumbled getting out of the vehicle and called himself “king of the gypsies, king of the Reillys’.
When police spoke to him he became aggressive and began to shout and shadow box. He then hit an officer twice in the chest, before becoming aggressive with his wife. He then goaded police officers shouting in an aggressive manner “go on hit me, go on”.
Defence solicitor Michael Fahy said the incident was ‘unsavoury in all respects’ and said Reilly was ‘extremely ashamed’ of his actions. The defence said it was Reilly’s birthday and he had fallen in with a friend and drank an ‘inordinate amount of alcohol’. Mr Fahy said this was an isolated incident and noted the defendant hasn’t come to the court’s attention for a similar offence in 16 years.
Deputy district judge Chris Holmes said: “You’re too old for this now, simple as that.” The judge noted the defendant’s early guilty plea and his apology to police after caution.
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