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A criminal who head butted a prison officer after complaining his new cell did not have a television has had his time in jail extended by 18 months.
Glen Conroy (29) is currently serving a six year sentence for aggravated burglary and had been due for release in January 2018. This new sentence will begin then.
He has 57 previous convictions including seven for assault causing harm, five for burglary, three for robbery, one for false imprisonment as well as public order and road traffic offences.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard Conroy has spent just two and a half years in total at ….read more
The High Court has ordered the extradition of a 77-year-old retired teacher to the UK to face a single charge of indecently assaulting a student forty years ago.
The UK citizen, with an address in Co Donegal but who cannot be identified for legal reasons, is alleged to have indecently assaulted a ten-year-old student on one occasion when they were alone in a school staff room in the UK in June or July 1978. The offence carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Authorities in the UK issued a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) in respect of the man which was ….read more
The High Court is expected to decide in October whether to extradite a 40-year-old Belfast man wanted in Northern Ireland to face prosecution in connection with the murder of prison officer David Black.
Damien Joseph McLaughlin, with an address at Glenties Rd, Belfast, was arrested in County Donegal last March on foot of a European Arrest Warrant issued by Northern Ireland authorities.
He is wanted to face allegations that he aided and abetted in the murder of David Black on November 1st, 2012, and was in possession of an article suspected of being for the commission of the act of murder.
Mr Black, ….read more
(Pictured: Garda Eve Doherty. Credit: Collins)
By Declan Brennan
The trial of a detective for allegedly harassing a State solicitor has heard that a man who admitted ringing the solicitor’s personal mobile is the subject of three garda investigations.
Eve Doherty (49), a detective sergeant based in Dublin, denies harassing Elizabeth Howlin between September 2011 and March 2013 and making false statements on two dates in March 2013 claiming Ms Howlin was perverting the course of justice.
At the time Ms Howlin worked with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) where she was involved in deciding whether or not to direct prosecutions in criminal ….read more
By Aoife Nic Ardghail and Declan Brennan
A former chemistry student who set fire to a €34,000 BMW car at a luxury motor dealership while he was on drugs has received a two and half year sentence.
Talavs Riekstins (23) had been deemed unfit for work by concerned colleagues and sent home earlier in the day when he turned up at Harford Motor Company to look at Ferrari cars.
He moved on when the dealership staff told him to leave but returned with a filled petrol can. He poured the petrol over a BMW parked outside the dealership and used a lighter to ….read more
A 30-year-old Mayo man has been sentenced to life in prison for the double murder of two elderly brothers with special needs in their Mayo home. He had bludgeoned them with a shovel and one of their walking sticks.
Alan Cawley of Four Winds, Corrinbla, Ballina, Co Mayo had admitted killing Thomas Blaine (69) and John (Jack) Blaine (76).
However, he had pleaded not guilty to murdering them on 10th July 2013 at New Antrim Street in Castlebar. He had argued that he had three mental disorders that had diminished his responsibility and was therefore entitled to a manslaughter verdict.
His Central Criminal ….read more
