Troubled family life and a history of violence
1993
Eoin Peter Paul Berkeley is born to Joyce Butler and Paul Berkeley in Dublin
1999
His foster father dies – he had been placed in foster care at the age of four
2005
At the age of 12, he leaves school because of his violent behaviour and his foster family finds him difficult to handle. He is institutionalised at Ballydowd, a facility for ‘unruly youths’
2014
He is arrested for brandishing an imitation firearm on North Earl Street in Dublin city and is convicted for this offence
2014
He receives a fourmonth jail term for assaulting a man, and threatening and abusing the investigating garda who took him into custody
2016
He damages the Central Bank plinth and is ordered to stay out of Temple Bar
2016
He is arrested after he is found with an imitation AK-47 in the vicinity of Dublin Airport
2016
He is sentenced to five months in prison for possession of a knife on O’Connell Street
2017
He is charged with criminal damage relating to homophobic slurs written in chalk on the wall of The George bar in Dublin. He is later acquitted.
2017
He is arrested under the Mental Health Act after he is involved in a standoff at his family home with an imitation AK-47. A garda inspector asks that he be medically assessed, but a doctor deems him fit
2017
In July, a young Spanish student tells gardaí she has been held against her will and repeatedly raped by Berkeley inside a tent at the former Irish Glass Bottle site in Dublin’s Ringsend
2018
Berkeley is sentenced to 14 years for the horrific rape of the teenager, who had arrived in Ireland two weeks earlier to improve her English and was staying with a host family in Dublin