INLA gang members jailed for part in attack
Monday, 15 January 2001 19:19
Two men who were part of an INLA gang that attacked another gang of men in Ballymount in October, 1999, have been sent to jail for seven and nine years respectively. 23-year-old Patrick O'Toole from Kilclare Gardens in Tallaght, Dublin, and 27-year-old Declan Duffy, with an address at Fatima Mansions, but originally from Armagh City, were both jailed for their part in the melee in which an INLA man died.
The court heard that the two men were part of a gang that stripped, beat, tortured and interrogated another gang of men in a factory in Ballymount on 6 October, 1999. Mr Justice Diarmuid O'Donovan said that this was a vicious attack and that Mr Duffy, who was in charge of the gang, had wanted to shoot one of the men, but was stopped by another man. Afterwards, Patrick O'Toole's distraught father was restrained and removed from the court after threatening Declan Duffy as he was being led away.
