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Psychiatrists for both sides in the trial of a man, charged with attempting to murder his pregnant sister, have said he is entitled to verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.
The consultant psychiatrists were giving evidence to the Central Criminal Court today in the trial of an autistic Kilkenny man, who decided to ‘do away with’ his sister so that she wouldn’t raise her child in Dublin.
Daniel O’Connell (33) with an address at Rosemount, Newpark, Co Kilkenny has pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder of Olivia O’Connell (now 42) when she was 26 and a half weeks pregnant ….read more
By Brion Hoban
A man caught in possession of a stolen motorcycle has received a fully suspended sentence.
William Baker (34) of Foster Terrace, Ballybough, Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of a stolen motorcycle on the basis of recklessness.
Judge Martin Nolan suspended a two-year sentence on condition that he be of good behaviour and that he pay the owner €2,200 within a period of 15 months.
Detective Garda Adrien Buckley told Dara Hayes BL, prosecuting, that he was on patrol in East Wall, Dublin on May 9, 2016 when he stopped two men riding on a motorcycle.
He became ….read more
(File Picture: Deputy State Pathologist Dr Michael Curtis. Credit: Collins)
A man who was stabbed to death during a night out had alcohol, cocaine, methadone and valium in his system, a pathologist told a murder trial today.
Deputy State Pathologist Dr Michael Curtis told prosecuting counsel, John O’Kelly SC, that James Banville died from a single stab wound to the heart and was otherwise healthy.
Juraci Da Silva (36), with an address at Park Lane Apartments in Waterford, has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to the manslaughter of 28-year-old James Banville at New Street in Waterford on October 8, 2016.
His ….read more
A woman whose former partner was caught with over €50,000 of heroin has avoided a jail sentence for permitting the preparation of the drugs at her home.
Rachel Harford (47) told gardaí the drugs had nothing to do with her and she hid one of the bags in the crotch of her leggings out of panic because she got a fright when gardaí arrived.
Her former partner, Eamonn Kane, pleaded guilty to possession of the drugs found at the house and last year received a four years and nine month sentence with the final 18 months suspended.
Harford, whose four minor previous convictions ….read more
An autistic man, charged with attempting to murder his pregnant sister, had searched for ‘murder suicide’ and ‘not guilty by reason of insanity’ on his computer before he stabbed her in her Dublin home as she recovered from cancer.
Daniel O’Connell (33) with an address at Rosemount, Newpark, Co Kilkenny has pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder of Olivia O’Connell in a case, where the jury may find him ‘not guilty by reason of insanity’.
Mr O’Connell admitted during Garda interviews that he had tried to kill her by stabbing her a number of times on April 25, 2016 in her ….read more
A Louth man accused of IRA membership and directing the activities of the dissident organization denied buying Shamrock glucose in his alleged capacity as an IRA member, the Special Criminal Court has heard.
Seamus McGrane (63), of Little Road, Dromiskin, County Louth has pleaded not guilty to membership of the IRA between January 18th, 2010 and May 13th, 2015.
He has also denied directing the activities of an unlawful organization, styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA, between the dates of April 19th and May 13th, 2015.
Detective Garda Colm Finnerty, of the Special ….read more
