Man jailed for assault after his accomplice sprayed corrosive liquid in garda’s eye during his arrest
The CCJ in Dublin.A man whose female accomplice sprayed a strongly alkaline corrosive liquid into the eye of a garda has been jailed for assaulting two gardaí who were trying to arrest him.David Hearns (34) called out to his female accomplice to “get the bottle, get the bottle” while Gardaí Colin Byrne and Ben Fallon were trying to arrest him. Hearns and the woman had just driven into a Dublin flat complex at high speed, in a stolen car, having just stolen over €400 worth of items from a nearby hardware store.
