News - Edward ‘Blondie’ Stokes

35-year-old Edward 'Blondie' Stokes was jailed last week for a dog attack on Inspector Tom Quinn in Ferriskill, Granard, in 2018.

Judge Kenneth Connolly said Mr Stokes had written an extensive letter of apology, in which he'd given a gold-plated commitment he won’t be involved in criminality again.

Edward ‘Blondie’ Stokes and his wife Sharon Stokes entered their eleventh hour pleas just before their jury trial was set to begin at Longford Circuit Court this morning, more than seven years after the incident took place.