A charge which alleges money laundering by a man with a Rhode address has come before Tullamore District Court. Patrick McLoughlin, 40, Clonmeen, Rhode, is accu.
Offaly man fined after punching van causing €1,000 worth of damage
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PUNCHES to the side of a van caused €1,089 worth of damage, Tullamore District Court was told.
But because the van was a 16-year-old vehicle and was disposed of a week after it was damaged by a man at Heffernan s filling station, O Moore Street, Tullamore, €400 in compensation was accepted by the owner.
Dermot Ward, 29, Bay 4 Kilcruttin Halting Site, Tullamore, pleaded guilty to damaging Wesley McDonagh s van and breaching the peace on May 11, 2020.
Sergeant James O Sullivan said CCTV showed Mr Ward punching the side of the van three times. The accused had three previous convictions and in 2019 had received an eight-month suspended sentence for affray.
DIRECTIONS from the DPP are awaited in the case of a man who has been prosecuted for lewdly exposing his person in Offaly. Twenty-four-year-old Andrew Mitchell,.
This is the sex text creep ordered to move from the village where he has spent years terrorising a young mum by sending her explicit text messages.
Lawnmower man Pat Dunne, who was described in court as having a ‘deviant sexual propensity,’ was this week given a ‘headline sentence’ of three years in prison but is free on bail until May 11 when matters will be finalised.
In the interim, the texting terror was ordered to move out of the estate in Clonaslee, Co Laois, where he not only harassed his 35-year-old neighbour but also broke into the home of another woman who woke to find him rubbing her leg.
Midlands man threatened to cut head off Scooby Doo with slash hook
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A midlands man who recorded a video of himself holding a slash hook while threatening a rival has been ordered by a judge not to abuse social media.
However, 38-year-old Patrick Maughan escaped jail when Judge Catherine Staines imposed a 10-month suspended sentence on him after viewing the shocking video he posted on YouTube.
Mr Maughan, of St Mary s Road, Edenderry, Co Offaly, gave an undertaking not to post a video like it again.
In the video, posted by Mr Maughan on June 23 last year and viewed by Judge Staines at Tullamore District Court, Mr Maughan threatened to cut the head off Michael McDonald.