Gardaà have have sent two handguns found on a Cork building site for ballistics analysis to see whether they may be linked to a number of shootings in the city in recent years.
Investigators believe the two guns, a revolver and a semi-automatic pistol, were disturbed by workmen on a construction site at Ballincollie Road near Whites Cross on the cityâs northside.
The workmen had been carrying out some excavation work on a ditch and the guns were discovered on Wednesday evening by some local teenagers who alerted gardaà from Watercourse Road.
The scene was preserved for a technical examination and the weapons have been sent for forensic and ballistics analysis by Garda technical experts in Dublin to see if they were used in any crime.
Well, the people of Gwent have managed to bag quite a few records over the years. From the most environmentally-friendly dog, to horticultural talents which have caught the eye of Snoop Dogg, Here are some of world records claimed by Gwent residents.
Most bottles recycled by a dog Tubby, a Labrador from Pontnewydd, claimed his world record in 2010. This very good boy helped recycle an estimated 26,000 plastic bottles over the six years prior to his recognition, picking them up on his daily walks, crushing them and passing them to his owner.
Heaviest bell pepper It weighed in at 720g at the Malvern Autumn Show in 2018.
Escapee from UK prison jailed for dealing cannabis in Cork Ikran Aslam (38) admitted possessing drugs for sale or supply and money laundering
Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 13:59
During a search of Ikran Aslam’s home, gardaí found a large quantity of cannabis herb, weighing scales and bags hidden behind the back panel of a wardrobe.
A man who fled from an open prison in the UK has been jailed for five years for possesssion of cannabis worth €34,000 in Cork city last year.
Ikran Aslam (38), a British citizen with an address at The Avenue, Pembroke Woods, Passage West, Co Cork, pleaded guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to possessing cannabis herb for sale or supply and money laundering on September 24th, 2020.
Man jailed after setting up fake profile to suggest woman offering sexual services Court heard the 30-year-old had engaged in similar type harassment of the victim five years earlier
Fri, Feb 19, 2021, 20:58
Judge Ó Donnabháin sentenced Downey to four years in jail but he suspended the two years to take account of his guilty plea
A 30-year-old apprentice butcher has been jailed for two years for harassing a young woman by setting up a fake profile offering sexual services and directing men to her house.
It came five years after he engaged in a similar type of harassment of the woman.