A father of seven who told gardaí he thought he was attending a job interview but ended up taking part in a violent forced eviction has been jailed for three years.
A father of seven who told gardaí he thought he was attending a job interview but ended up taking part in a violent forced eviction has been jailed for three years.
Desmond McGrath (50) was part of a gang of seven men, including convicted murderer Declan Duffy and INLA kidnapper Dessie O Hare, also known as ‘The Border Fox’, who falsely imprisoned and tried to evict a family from their home.
McGrath also took part in the assault of a security guard who became involved in the incident, punching and kicking the man.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that five of the men involved, including O Hare and Duffy, were convicted in the Special Criminal Court in 2019. The court heard that O Hare and Duffy were “the ringleaders” of the events.
Jailed for three years for Saggart assault and imprisonment incident
Falsely imprisonment former head of security of the Mansfield Group which ran various properties such as Citywest Hotel
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A father-of-seven who told gardaí he thought he was attending a job interview but ended up taking part in a violent forced eviction has been jailed for three years.
Desmond McGrath (50) was part of a gang of seven men, including convicted murderer Declan Duffy and INLA kidnapper Dessie O Hare, also known as “The Border Fox”, who falsely imprisoned and tried to evict a family from their home.
McGrath also took part in the assault of a security guard who became involved in the incident, punching and kicking the man.
A father-of-seven who told gardaí he thought he was attending a job interview but ended up taking part in a violent forced eviction has been jailed for three years.
Desmond McGrath (50) was part of a gang of seven men, including convicted murderer Declan Duffy and INLA kidnapper Dessie O Hare, also known as “The Border Fox”, who falsely imprisoned and tried to evict a family from their home.
McGrath also took part in the assault of a security guard who became involved in the incident, punching and kicking the man.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that five of the men involved, including O Hare and Duffy, were convicted in the Special Criminal Court in 2019. The court heard that O Hare and Duffy were “the ringleaders” of the events.
The trial of Jim Mansfield Jnr, who is accused of setting up a longtime employee to be taken prisoner by a gang, has been adjourned at the Special Criminal Court for almost six months.
This is the second adjournment in the trial, with the property magnate s case previously adjourned for several weeks on November 19 after the defence requested time to view newly disclosed CCTV footage.
Last month, Shane Costelloe SC on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), submitted that gardai had only become aware that a significant proportion of CCTV footage retained on a hard-drive had never been disclosed to the State.