Third man appears before Special Criminal Court charged with attacking and falsely imprisoning man in Louth farmhouse
Thomas McGuinness (33), of Chestnut Court, Navan, Co Meath appeared before court today.
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Thomas McGuinness (33), of Chestnut Court, Navan, Co Meath appeared before court today.
The men were later arrested in Monaghan.
A man was charged and will appear in court today.
He appeared before an out-of-hours sitting of the non-jury Special Criminal Court tonight.
Graham Stafford broke into the home believing one of the family owed him €3,000.
Four men have pleaded not guilty to the false imprisonment of the Richardson family at their Raheny home in 2005.
When one of the women ran away he caught her and began punching her repeatedly.
32-year-old Michael Cummins had been suffering a ‘paranoiac’ attack due to taking a cocktail of drugs, the court heard.
The Circuit Civil Court ruled last week in favour of Sarah Doupe over an incident that happened in 2013.
The payment was in relation to an incident that took place at Pearse Station in 2013.
Jason Lester, now aged 18, had been convicted of false imprisonment of the former Labour leader and one of her assistants in the Children’s Court.
Dozens of supporters celebrated with Paul Murphy and others, assured that their right to protest has been protected.
The six men were accused of falsely imprisoning former Tánaiste Joan Burton and her adviser Karen O’Connell in 2014.
Closing statements were made by counsel for some of the accused in the Jobstown trial today.
People with significant learning disabilities were detained in seclusion rooms which had no heating or toilet facilities.
It’s day 22 of the trial.
Solidarity TD Paul Murphy and six other men are charged with falsely imprisoning Joan Burton and her advisor.
Garda Inspector Derek Maguire was giving evidence in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.
Seven men are accused of falsely imprisoning the former Tánaiste during a water charges protest in 2014.
“The protesters called us rats,” one garda told the trial today.
This is day three of the Jobstown false imprisonment trial.
Murphy and six other accused have all entered not guilty pleas.
Over 100 potential jurors were called in a random ballot and a jury of five women and seven men were selected.
The men were arrested yesterday and were held by gardaí overnight.
Gardaí found the man when they stopped and searched a van on main street in Finglas at around 1.40 this morning.
Solidarity TD Paul Murphy is one of seven people charged with falsely imprisoning Joan Burton.
Jonathan Dowdall and his father will be sentenced on 28 April.
The judge described the CCTV evidence as “chilling” in court.
The car was stopped on the M1.
The extensive operation was launched after gardaí received reports of people being falsely imprisoned at a house in Navan.
He has since been released and a file prepared for the DPP.
Each of the three charges against Jonathan Dowdall (39) and Patrick Dowdall (59) are alleged to have taken place in Dublin in January 2015.
Sean Dowdall has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years for car theft and false imprisonment.
A 32-year-old male is due to appear before the Criminal Courts of Justice this afternoon.
The assault on a man in his 50s took place last September.
Not all kidnappings involve hostages or demands for money.
Three of the group are still being held in custody in Wexford.
The jury found gardaí had trespassed and falsely imprisoned her in her home while questioning her about a missing iphone.
Josephine Herivel still calls the man her teacher and leader.