Being told the life I've lost is worth four and a half years isn't the best

Teen left blind in attack slams sentence. Thug Lyons, 19, hit girl in side' of her face

- DANNY DE VAAL

A DISTRAUGHT teen who was blinded in one eye during a vicious attack broke down outside court yesterday after one member of the gang involved was caged for four-and-a-half years.

An emotional Alanna Quinn Idris, 18, said she didn’t feel the sentence her attacker Darragh Lyons received was long enough.

She added: “Being told today that what happened to me and the life that I’ve lost is only worth four-and-a-half years obviously isn’t the best thing to hear. I’ve to be like this for the rest of my life.

“And in four-and-a-half years he’ll be out and about, I didn’t really feel these consequences are justified considering how I have to be now for the rest of my life.”

She spoke after teenager Lyons, who took part in what a judge termed a “savage attack”, was jailed.

The 19-year-old of Weir View, Glenaulin, Chapelizod, Dublin, pleaded guilty to assault causing serious harm and violent disorder on Ballyfermot Road on December 30, 2021.

Alanna, then aged 17, was hit in the face with the saddle of an electric scooter by another youth, fracturing her eye socket.