Donegal apprentice jockey due to appear in UK court on GBH charge

An apprentice jockey from Donegal is due before court in England later this month charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent. 

Brandon Wilkie, originally from Letterkenny but with an address in Dromahair, Co Leitrim, is charged in connection with an alleged incident in the Newmarket area in August 2025.

Wilkie is alleged to have assaulted another person, a weighing room colleague, on August 3.

Police were called the following day and Wilkie was arrested a couple of weeks later.

He has since been charged with GBH and is due to be before Ipswich Magistrates’ Court on April 27.

Police in England say that the victim sustained “serious facial injuries”. The man required hospital treatment.

So far this year, Wilkie had had 13 mounts in Ireland, the most recent of which was in Dundalk last Friday afternoon.

He has had 64 winners in Britain, but has not ridden there since last August. 

Grievous bodily harm with intent means deliberately causing serious physical injury to another person and is an offence that can be punishable with a prison sentence on conviction.