A member of the English boy band 5ive has had all charges against him dismissed, arising out of a disturbance in a Dublin pub last December.
25-year-old Jason Brown was given the probation act and ordered to pay £5,000 into a fund in Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin for babies of drug addicts. He is also to pay witness expenses of 700 pounds.
Jason Brown or Jay as he is known to his friends, failed to turn up for his previous hearing last March. He said that he was unable to attend because his mother had been ill in America at the time.
Another member of the band Richard Dobson was in court last March. He pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly and using threatening language. He too was given the Probation Act.
The court heard how Jason Brown had punched a customer Fionnán Gallagher in the face at the Palace Bar on Fleet Street after a heated exchange.
Judge Gerard Haughton said that there was overwhelming evidence that Jason Brown was the aggressor at all stages and that Mr Gallagher did not do anything to provoke the attack.
However, he added that Mr Brown had just completed a world tour, had not slept the night before and had been drinking.
