‘You made your bed, you must lie in it’: Chawke siblings jailed for four-star hotel assault
Two siblings, Bill and Alison Chawke, were sentenced to prison for a violent, unprovoked assault on two men at a hotel in Adare. The court noted the ferocity of the attack, which included biting and eye-gouging, and emphasized that the victims were entitled to safety.
Why it matters
The case highlights judicial responses to violent crime and the consequences of alcohol-fueled public disturbances.
A CHILDREN of a prominent publican were jailed for two and half years between them after they pleaded guilty to a vicious assault in a four-star hotel.
Bill Chawke (31), of Merrion Street Upper, Dublin 2, and Alison Chawke (41), of The Beeches, Holywell, Goatstown, Dublin 14, attacked two men without provocation at the Dunraven Arms Hotel in Adare on November 9, 2023.
The defendants brought “embarrassment” on their family, whose well-known national pub chain was built up by their father Charlie Chawke, their barristers told the court.
The two Chawke siblings were alcohol intoxicated when they lashed out at two men. Their only defence was that they claimed the men had stared and smirked at them.
Bill and Alison Chawke set upon the victims, Gerard Cox and John Mchugh, both in their 50s, punching and kicking them and gouging their eyes.
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