Anthony Stokes given suspended sentence for nightclub attack

Anthony Stokes arrives at Dublin's Circuit Criminal Court for a sentencing hearing. Blackburn Rovers striker Anthony Stokes has been hit with a two-year suspended sentence for assaulting an Elvis impersonator in a nightclub. The 28-year-old pleaded guilty last November over the attack in what was then Buck Whaleys on Leeson Street in Dublin on June 8, 2013. Dublin-born Stokes, who spent six years playing for Celtic, is also to pay the victim, Anthony Bradley, €30,000. Judge Patricia Ryan said she was taking into consideration "the seriousness of the offence and the personal...

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