Olympic boxer Steven Donnelly facing jail over train assaults
Boxer Steven Donnelly represented Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games and Ireland at the 2016 Olympics
Donnelly, from Dunfane Park, Ballymena, was given prison terms for the assaults and for breaching restraining orders.The 34-year-old boxer had already pleaded guilty to common assault at a previous hearing but is now appealing his custodial sentence.According to witness statements, Donnelly was striding up and down the carriage "singing sectarian songs and acting aggressively to members of the public," during the train journey on 6 August 2022.
But the lawyer told the court that at the time Donnelly said: "Do you know who I am? I'm Steven Donnelly the boxer." He explained that Donnelly had a "successful boxing career" at both Olympic and Commonwealth level and had tried to fill that void with alcohol.
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