Search Results for 'Aidan Minnock'

A former local election candidate charged with threatening two gardaí, alleged in court this week (October 12) that pertinent CCTV footage “may have been tampered with”, then dispensed with his solicitor, and was told to return to court in seven days “with a better solicitor than yourself” or else the judge would finalise the case the following week.

A teenage offender - described by one Garda source as “Athlone’s most troublesome burglar” - had a jail sentence extended by three months on request in the District Court this week (October 12) so that he might be able to sit his Junior Cert.

The owner of a school bus found with 22 supposed defects had his case struck out in the District Court this week (September 14) after the judge accepted the vehicle had been good enough for both the Department of the Environment and Bus Eireann.

A man who stole a woman’s purse in what the judge described as “a mean, opportunistic crime”, was fined €400 in the District Court this week (September 14).

A judge has demanded the production of all documentation in the curious case of the unregistered luxury SUV, which was stolen days after being insured for €15,000 more than the owner paid cash for, and was then found in Kilbeggan with false plates and full of stolen goods.

Two men who were charged after a concrete block was thrown through a house door because a witness declared in a statement he was “100 per cent” sure it was them, both walked free from court this week (June 1) after the witness became “reluctant” and contradicted his statement in the witness box.

A man who U-turned at a checkpoint but turned down a cul-de-sac in the attempted getaway, then kicked a garda when being restrained and refused to give his details or a sample in the station, before urinating in his cell, was sentenced to five months in prison and fined €2,500 in the District Court in Athlone this week (May 25).

A garda was congratulated by both the judge and his inspector for his “professionalism and diligence” when the four-man burglary gang he apprehended on a roadside, in the early hours, on his own, was jailed for between four and seven months apiece in the District Court this week (May 27).

A man already serving a two year sentence had it extended by nine months in the District Court this week (April 20) after being found guilty of possession with intent to supply €1,200 worth of heroin, despite being found with nearly €3,000 worth.

A teenage boy who assaulted a teenage girl both violently and indecently whilst engaged in illicit drinking in a schoolyard in a Midlands town was remanded on continuing bail until November after both social workers and the HSE gave evidence the boy has made “remarkable improvement” since his release from St Patrick’s Institution just after Christmas.