Man who stabbed son eight times jailed for 2 and a half years Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard that the victim Gino Frahill, had made a plea for leniency for his 49 year old father Leon
Leon Frahill pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to his son Gino Frahill who is in his late twenties at a bus stop at Glasslyn Road in Bandon on the 31st of March 2020.
He also pleaded guilty to two charges of producing a knife on the same occasion.
The court that Leon Frahill, having stabbed his son eight times then flagged down passing traffic to raise the alarm.
A 75-year-old former scout leader has been remanded on continuing bail after a jury failed to reach a verdict in a case where he was charged with indecently assaulting a boy in Co Cork.
Noel Sheehan, of Chimneyfields, Glenville, Co Cork, had denied a single count of indecent assault on the 13-year-old boy at an address in Glenville on a date unknown between January 7th, 1986 and April 31st, 1987.
The complainant, who is now aged 48, told the jury of three men and nine women on the opening day of the trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that he was part of a group of scouts who were staying at a derelict building that they were doing up for use by the scouts in Glenville.
Ann Mooney
Updated: 22 Apr 2021, 19:55
A GETAWAY driver for a burglary gang that brought “terror” as they preyed on elderly and vulnerable people was jailed today for 12 years.
John Faulkner, of Adelaide Place, St Luke’s, Cork city, claimed he was dropping off his pals to visit friends, but gardai testified that the men who exited his car tried to break into the rural home of a couple in their 80s near Charleville, north Co Cork.
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Judge Sean O’Donnabhain said people like Faulkner had forced pensioners into lockdown long before the pandemic struck
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Getaway driver Faulkner appeared before the Circuit Criminal Court in Cork this weekCredit: Google Streetview
Updated / Thursday, 22 Apr 2021
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Tralee native John Faulkner went on trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court earlier this week
A getaway driver who was part of a gang who went to rob the home of an elderly couple after they went to mass only to find gardaí lying in wait when they broke into the property, has been jailed for 12 years.
Tralee native John Faulkner, 38, went on trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court earlier this week in connection with a robbery at a home belonging to a couple in their 80s in Freemont, Charleville, Co Cork on 19 October 2019.
His defence team had claimed that Faulkner could have been dropping off two men to visit friends.
Man who vandalised house he was renting handed a two year suspended sentence 67 year old Denis O Connor of Hillside, Cappagh, Kinsale avoided jail after he paid the landlords compensation.
Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard that pensioner Denis O Connor, who has spent the last two months in custody pending today s sitting, had caused devastation to Audrey O Mahony and her family.
O Connor pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage to the cottage in Ballinspittle by removing roof rafters and damaging floors and other fittings on dates between December 5th 2015 and July 23rd 2018.
He also pleaded guilty to the theft of a fitted kitchen which he removed from the cottage and replaced with his own kitchen.