Five members of a family based organised crime group who beat, burned, stabbed and branded another man with the words "a rat" with a hot branding iron last year have been jailed today for between three and eight and a half years at the Special Criminal Court.
29-year-old Jason Hennessy Jr and 24-year-old Brandon Hennessy, of Sheephill Avenue, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, along with 46-year-old Kenneth Fitzsimons and 26-year-old Dean Fitzsimons, of Castlecurragh Vale, Mulhuddart, Dublin 15 pleaded guilty to assault causing harm at a house on Sheephill Avenue, Blanchardstown in Dublin 15.
They had originally been charged with more serious offences but the victim in the case, Barry Moore refused to give evidence against them because "he was afraid."
A fifth man, 30-year-old Devon Hennessy from Edgewood Lawns, Corduff, Dublin 15 pleaded guilty to falsely imprisoning and attacking the victim for the purpose of enhancing the activities of a criminal gang.
The attack happened on 12 February 2025, at a house on Sheephill Avenue, Blanchardstown in Dublin 15.
Jason Hennessy Jr was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.
Brandon Hennessy was sentenced to six years in prison but because he committed the offence on bail the sentence is consecutive to one he is serving which concludes on 16 Feb 2028. Today's sentence begins then.
Devon Hennessy was sentenced to three years in prison because he tried to intervene and pleaded guilty at an early stage.
Dean Fitzsimons was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison, while his father Kenneth Fitzsimons was sentenced eight years in prison.
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