A hospital groundsman convicted five years ago of the repeated rape of his wife s two sons can be named for the first time this week after the lifting of a court gagging order.
In 2015, Paul Gregory (56) of Lucky Brook house, Cronroe, Ashford, Co Wicklow, pleaded guilty to 205 counts of rape and sexual assault of his wife s two sons at his Wicklow home.
The victims were under 10-years-old when the abuse started in 1993 and the attacks continued for a decade.
Gregory had previously worked as a groundsman at Newcastle Psychiatric Hospital and was suspended when the allegations first emerged.
The Central Criminal Court heard that in some of the attacks he used a vacuum cleaner nozzle to sexually assault the child. One victim told his trial that he felt like he was abused “millions of times”.
A Kinahan cartel criminal who was found by armed gardai in a back garden cabin, where a loaded handgun had been stashed, has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court.
Trevor Byrne (40), who was informed by gardaí of a credible threat to his life and claimed he had the gun for his own protection, also had just over €3,000 in his pocket when he was arrested, his trial had heard.
Byrne has 40 previous convictions, the most relevant of which occurred in April 2005 when he was convicted of various offences including possession of a loaded double-barrel shotgun, unlawful seizure of vehicles and robbery of an off-licence.
A Kinahan cartel criminal who was found by armed gardai in a back garden cabin, where a loaded handgun had been stashed, has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court.
Trevor Byrne (40), who was informed by gardaí of a credible threat to his life and claimed he had the gun for his own protection, also had just over €3,000 in his pocket when he was arrested, his trial had heard.
Byrne has 40 previous convictions, the most relevant of which occurred in April 2005 when he was convicted of various offences including possession of a loaded double-barrel shotgun, unlawful seizure of vehicles and robbery of an off-licence. During this robbery, Byrne pointed a gun at gardai, got into an unmarked garda car in a bid to escape and also held a gun to a taxi-driver s head as he was pursued by gardai. He received sentences ranging from two to eight years for those offences and was released in November 2009.
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Two gunmen for Kinahan gang jailed in separate cases at Special Criminal Court
The presiding judge in one of the cases said the damage done by gun crime could not be ignored. By Alison O Riordan and Paul Neilan Monday 21 Dec 2020, 2:26 PM Dec 21st 2020, 2:26 PM 14,452 Views 0 Comments
TWO GUNMEN FOR the organised crime gang have been sentenced today in separate cases at the Special Criminal Court.
Trevor Byrne (40), of Cappagh Road, Finglas, Dublin 11, was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment. Bernard Fogarty, with an address at Hole in the Wall Road, Donaghmede, Dublin 13 was jailed for five years.
Byrne was found by armed gardaí in a back garden cabin, where a loaded handgun had been stashed. He claimed the gun was for his own protection, as he had been informed by gardaí of a credible threat to his life. He also h