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By Brion Hoban
A man who threw beer bottles at the owner of a chipper and subsequently fled to Australia while on bail will be sentenced later this month for assault.
Ethan Emmett (24), of Cappagh Drive, Finglas, Dublin 11, pleaded guilty in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm in Finglas on March 31, 2011.
Emmett flew to Australia while on bail in 2011 and was only returned to Ireland in March of this year following his serving of a prison sentence in Australia for reckless wounding.
Garda Sergeant John Walsh told Elva Duffy BL, prosecuting, that Emmett entered the chipper ….read more
By Isabel Hayes and Brion Hoban
The jury in the trial of a man accused of raping his wife on Christmas Day in 2003 has failed to reach a verdict.
The 44-year-old Dublin man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to two counts of rape, one count of oral rape and one count of anal rape of his then-wife on December 25, 2003.
The trial heard the man allegedly raped the woman on the couch after putting their young children to bed on Christmas night.
Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy discharged the jury of eight ….read more
(Pictured: Mr Vincent Banks. Credit: Collins)
Judges at the Special Criminal Court trial of a man accused of IRA membership have ruled that the man’s arrest was lawful.
Defence lawyers at the trial of Vincent Banks (47), who the prosecution allege purchased the car that was later used in the fatal shooting of Northern Irish prison officer David Black, had objected to the legality of the accused man’s arrest.
Mr Black, a 52-year-old father of two, was shot dead on November 1st 2012. He was driving to work at Maghaberry prison when the incident occurred.
Mr Banks, of Smithfield Gate Apartments in ….read more
A Moldovan man who set fire to his former housemate’s door following a row about a missing mobile phone has been sentenced to three and half years.
Roman Vladislav (35) had previously made drunken threats to the residents after his phone went missing as he believed one of them had taken it. He returned to the house and set the fire after gardaí were called to a “commotion” at the house earlier that evening.
Vladislav of Walton Hall, Riverbank, Swords, Co Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to damaging a property, at Seabury Parade, Malahide, by fire and being reckless ….read more
By Gerard Cunningham
A garda sergeant assigned to act as liaison officer with Tusla has said he never saw a 2014 notification containing a false allegation of sexual abuse against garda whistle blower Sgt Maurice McCabe.
Sergeant Tony Byrne said that the first time he became aware of the garda notification, sent by the child and family agency in May 2014 to Bailieboro Garda Station, was when the Charleton tribunal began.
A Tusla file on Sgt McCabe was opened when the witness, identified as Ms D, sought counselling in 2013 about a previously reported allegation which was investigated by gardaí in 2006.
The tribunal ….read more
(Pictured: Michael McDowell SC, who represents Sgt Maurice McCabe. Credit: Collins)
By Gerard Cunningham
Lawyers for garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe have told the Charleton tribunal that the evidence of the woman who made an allegation of child sexual assault against him should be held in public.
The woman is scheduled to give evidence on Monday to the tribunal, which is investigating an alleged smear campaign against Sgt McCabe.
The tribunal is to decide if the woman will give her evidence in private because of the nature of the matters to be explored.
This morning the tribunal chairman Mr Justice Peter Charleton heard submissions on ….read more
