JUDGE JAIL THREAT TO STILETTO ATTACK TEEN Thug admits drunken assault on girl after school graduation bash

A TEENAGER who stabbed a girl with a stiletto during a drunken row after a school graduation was threatened with jail yesterday.

A judge warned Shannon Jordan, 19, she will go to prison if she does not co-operate with the Probation Service.

The court heard her target suffered a fractured eye socket and laceration when she was hit.

Jordan has pleaded guilty to the serious assault and in her victim impact statement Natasha Griffin Mcmahon said she came close to being blinded, adding the deepest cut from the stiletto “was millimetres below my eye”.

She told the court: “If it had been even slightly higher I would have lost my eye completely or at best my sight.

“It terrifies me to think of how much my life would have been affected if that had happened.” Ms Griffin Mcmahon, was 17 at the time of the attack, said she had to undergo extensive medical treatment. It was only after around five months she began to regain feeling and movement in the side of her face.

Ms Griffin Mcmahon said she feels lucky the outcome wasn’t more serious.

She added: “It still unnerves me to think how close I came to being blinded and to how much worse this could have been.

“It is shocking how quickly a weapon was introduced to this altercation and how dangerous it proved to be.”

The attack occurred in Shannon town centre as a group of teenagers returned from a school graduation ceremony in Limerick in the early hours of August 25, 2015.

It is accepted Jordan did not remove her shoes to assault Ms Griffin Mcmahon.

In her statement read out to court, the victim said: “Every time I met with the doctor, they advised me of how fortunate I had been.

“Fortunate not to have lost my eye and fortunate to have been under such good care at the hospital that they were able to recover the feeling in my face.”

Jordan has been paying compensation to Ms Griffin Mcmahon at a rate of €50 a week since

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February and her solicitor had €1,700 in court yesterday. The thug, from Lios Anana, Sixmilebridge, Co Clare, is to hand over €5,000 in total.

Det Sgt Kevin O’hagan previously told Ennis Circuit Court there was a high level of intoxication among the group of teenagers as they returned from Limerick.

Judge Gerald Keys heard when the bus arrived in Shannon at around 3am, an argument broke out between Ms Griffin Mcmahon and Jordan’s then boyfriend.

Det Sgt O’hagan said the victim pushed the accused who was carrying her shoes after the night out.

Jordan then used the stiletto to strike Ms Griffin Mcmahon in the face.

Judge Keys adjourned sentencing to December 18 and remanded the defendant on continuing bail.

It still really unnerves me how close I was to being blinded NATASHA GRIFFIN MCMAHON