Father ‘overcome with emotion’ spared jail for courtroom attack on daughter’s sex abuser

The father entered the court and began to strike the man in the dock before being escorted out of the courtroom, court told

CCJ, Dublin

Tom Tuite

A judge has warned a father he cannot take the law into his own hands after the man attacked his daughter's sex abuser in court.

The man, who was "overcome with emotion", was spared jail but had a conviction recorded and was fined €300 after admitting he assaulted Daniel Martin (47), formerly of Old County Road, Crumlin in Dublin.