Not a Good Egg
26 March 2008, Dublin, Ireland
The Woftam Awards think this nominee and his friends are a clutch of bad eggs.
Thinking it would be funny to throw eggs at people at a nearby party, they purchased some on the way and threw them at homes and people as they walked along the road. Unfortunately, for one walker, she was egged in the face and sustained permanent damage to her left eye.
The injured woman, in severe pain, was taken to hospital by her husband. The medical report described an extremely large wound to her eye area. She sustained physical damage to the lens of the eye resulting in loss of sight, the need for a prosthetic cover and the possibility the eye may be removed in future.
The victim, a nurse, incurred medical expenses of almost €12,000 and a loss of earnings of €1.5m. Due to her injuries, she is now unable to return to nursing duties.
And how was the identity of this Woftam discovered? A nearby resident whose home had also been egged, noted the vehicle registration number which was used by police to trace the Woftam’s involved.
The egg throwing Woftam admitted his actions to police and was said to be ’shocked when he realised he had thrown it at a grown woman and not another youth’. He escaped a jail term of three years’ with orders for community service. Money the nominee raised as a token of remorse was rejected by the victim and directed by the judge to be donated to charity.
Source: www.herald.ie, www.independent.ie
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