Former Anglo Irish Bank director jailed for two and a half years for fraud
Willie McAteer is currently serving a three-and-a-half-year sentence for other offences.
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Willie McAteer is currently serving a three-and-a-half-year sentence for other offences.
The alleged victim was told she might receive €2,000 a day, but would have to pay a €50,000 ‘debt owed’ for bringing her to Ireland.
His colleague William McAteer will be sentenced next week.
He said he began the shoplifting enterprise because had built up heavy debt.
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The man allegedly beat and threatened the mother of his children throughout their five-year relationship.
He and an accomplice held a gun to the head of the manager.
Willie McAteer will be sentenced in January.
The victim’s balance and ability to process visual and spoken information had been severely impacted.
James Thornton said the man he was aiming to hit “looked like a little faggot”.
The mother had allegedly just been kidnapped by her partner a short time after she obtained a barring order against him.
The girl was the fifth victim of the accused.
She alleged that the man regularly beat her and locked her and their children in their apartment for hours at a time.
Augustin Ion’s claims that she wouldn’t pay a fare were rejected as a ’tissue of lies’.
The woman said she feared he would drive away from her house with her in the car.
Kelvin Lynch broke Barry Fitzgerald’s nose after coming under the impression he had taken his change.
Expert witness Dr Philip Owen told the inquiry the woman likely had a continuing normal pregnancy in her womb.
The accused man’s defence had claimed he had no knowledge of his actions.
The case of a man accused of raping his friend in 2008 has concluded at the Central Criminal Court.
The woman told the trial she was sharing a bed with the man after a night out when she woke up to him having sex with her.
The boy’s father was jailed for 14 years last week for raping the child.
Delay in arrest and charge of man caught with child abuse imagery because of the backlog in the garda computer crimes unit.
The man’s partner will be sentenced for child cruelty next week.
The now 13-year-old boy’s father was convicted of nine counts of rape and one count of child cruelty.
The trial is expected to run for three months.
Constantin Zahira was jailed for nine years with two and a half years suspended.
The judge said he was imposing the sentence “to send out a message to any other that thinks of spreading information that is grossly defamatory”.
The 12-year-old said he blames his father, who was convicted of nine counts of raping him when he was six and seven.
The 42-year-old is only the third person to be convicted for marital rape since rape within a marriage was made illegal in 1990.
Dinah Loughlin has since repaid the money.
Sean Carraher was found guilty of posting about 50 messages on two websites.
Sean Dowdall has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years for car theft and false imprisonment.
Sean Carracher used websites to allege that Sergeant Conor Gilmartin was corrupt.
Thomas Wall says he’s been ‘locked up’ but wants to spend more time with his daughter.
The man had pleaded not guilty.
“There must in all rape cases, in my view, be a substantial custodial sentence,” the judge said today.
The 42-year-old accused had earlier pleaded guilty to hitting his wife with a hammer in 2014.
The 42-year-old accused said he had been “cursed” in his native country.
“I’m going to finish this tonight”, the accused is alleged to have said to his wife before hitting her with a hammer.
The woman said her husband took up a knife and said he could cut her face open before pushing her upstairs and raping her.
Mary Cullen had been using her partner’s deceased ex-wife’s identity to claim the payments since 1987.