Ireland Named in reporting
Alan Melia
Born 1994, from the ages reported. 3 reports across 3 cases, 27 Jan 2023 to 1 Aug 2025
Key facts
from every report naming them- Named as
- Convicted
- Born
- 1994, from the ages reported
- Offences
- Unauthorised taking of a vehicle, Criminal damage, Attempted hijack, Assault causing harm, Robbery; criminal damage; dangerous driving
- Where
- Co. Wicklow, Co. Dublin, Co. Louth
- Reporting
- 3 reports, 27 Jan 2023 to 1 Aug 2025
- Outlets
- irishmirror.ie, irishtimes.com, dundalkdemocrat.ie
Cases
latest first- Man jailed for stealing and crashing €80,000 car in Greystones Unauthorised taking of a vehicle · Co. Wicklow
Alan Melia, 31, a man, and Jade Burns, 21, a woman, pleaded guilty to charges arising from Melia taking a brand new Toyota Land Cruiser from a driveway in Greystones, Co Wicklow, at around 7.30pm on 9 February 2024, crashing it into a garden wall, and attempting to hijack another vehicle. At Wicklow Circuit Criminal Court on 1 August 2025, Melia was sentenced to five and a half years in prison on concurrent terms for criminal damage, unauthorised taking of a vehicle, and attempted hijack. Burns, who was in the passenger seat, received fully suspended sentences of 18 months and six months for trespass and allowing herself to be carried in a stolen vehicle. Melia had 112 previous convictions and was on bail at the time of the incident.
Sentenced, 1 Aug 2025Convicted · 1 report - Alan Melia jailed for two years for headbutting cemetery flower seller in Dublin Assault causing harm · Co. Dublin
Alan Melia, a man, 31, headbutted a cemetery flower seller at Palmerstown Cemetery, Dublin, on 15 December 2020 after an accomplice threatened to rob the seller over €6 of flowers. The victim, a man who had been selling flowers at the cemetery for 40 years, had his glasses broken and sustained a cut to his nose. Melia, who had 113 previous convictions and was on bail at the time, admitted assault causing harm. In March 2025, Judge Orla Crowe at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court sentenced him to two years, a headline three with the final year suspended, to run consecutive to his existing seven-and-a-half-year robbery sentence.
Sentenced, 19 Mar 2025Convicted · 1 report - Man sentenced for robbery and dangerous driving in Louth Robbery; criminal damage; dangerous driving · Co. Louth
On 23 August 2020, Alan Melia, 28, of Ballyfermot, Dublin, and another individual robbed a filling station at Applegreen, Tullynacross, Lisburn, of £717 sterling and about €480, with Melia producing a screwdriver. They escaped in a black Ford Focus, which reversed into an unmarked garda patrol car on the M1, and two further Garda vehicles were damaged during the pursuit. Melia, who had 92 previous convictions and was under a 15-year driving ban, pleaded guilty at Dundalk Circuit Court. On 27 January 2023, Judge Patrick Quinn sentenced him to four years for the endangerment offence with the final two years suspended on a 12-month good behaviour bond, concurrent sentences of 12 months and four months for criminal damage and dangerous driving, and a 15-year driving disqualification.
Sentenced, 27 Jan 2023Convicted · 1 report
Timeline
every report naming Alan Melia, newest firstEach entry shows how that report described them.
- 1 Aug2025Man who stole and crashed €80k car to get home after day out with partner jailedconvicted, Alan Melia, 31, male, named, irish (judged from name)Alan Melia
- 19 Mar2025Man with 113 previous convictions jailed for attacking graveyard flower sellerconvicted, Alan Melia, 31, male, named, irish (judged from name)Alan Melia
- 27 Jan2023Dundalk court: Jailed for robbery and ramming garda carsconvicted, Alan Melia, 28, male, named, irish (judged from name)Alan Melia
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