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Man who previously avoided jail found in possession of child sex abuse images again.
A Westmeath man who previously avoided jail after being given a three-year and nine months suspended sentence for possession of child sex abuse material has been jailed after being caught with child abuse images again.
43-year-old Bryan Dunne, who has an address at Hyde Park Lodge, Killucan, Co. Westmeath pleaded guilty to possession of over 700 indecent images of children.
Tom Tuite reported that Dunne admitted before Judge Keenan Johnson at Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court to being sexually attracted to prepubescent girls.
Dunne was found to be in possession of material that was stored on a cloud and depicted girls ranging in age from seven to fourteen years being sexually abused.
Weeping in court, Dunne claimed that on the night he accessed the abuse material he had attempted to end his own life by taking pills.
Judge Johnson noted that Dunne had made no effort to delete the explicit sex abuse images from his cloud storage where they were kept since 2018.
Dunne was sentenced to 12 months in jail to commence by arrangement on the 31st of July in order to allow him to get his affairs in order.
He is to present himself to Gardaí to be brought to prison and risks that his previously suspended three year and nine month sentence will be reactivated to run concurrent to his new sentence.
Man to be sent forward for trial for alleged breaches of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act.
A man appeared before Letterkenny District charged with alleged breaches of the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act.
Donegal Daily reported that 23-year-old Othniel Matondo appeared before the courts on Wednesday where he faces a number of charges that he “did engage in converting, transferring, handling, acquiring, possessing or using property that is the proceeds of criminal conduct, to wit €2,990 that was credited to his Revolut account.”
Garda Sergeant Jim Collins informed that court that the DPP’s case against Matondo would commence at Letterkenny Circuit Court on the 21st of October where the accused must answer for the charges which are contrary to Section 7 of the Criminal Justice Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing) Act.
The court heard that Matondo is already signing on at a Garda station in relation to other matters.
He was granted bail in respect of the fresh charges and granted legal aid.
Man who assaulted his ex threatening to “smash” her head in is jailed.
A man who assaulted his ex partner threatening to “smash” her head in and calling her a bitch and a whore has been jailed.
The Sunday World reported that the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons but came to Ireland from overseas 14 years ago, assaulted the woman with her young child present.
The court heard that the man and the injured party had been involved in a volatile relationship for some years and that he had hit the woman on her head and body and threatened to kill her. He left the premises at about 1am.
Four days after this the man came back and pushed his way into the property again before verbally abusing the woman and threatening to kill her. He took her phone and smashed it on this occasion.The victim’s child was present.
A victim impact statement said that the woman lived in “sheer fear” of the man and that she would become afraid when she saw a car that looked like the one he drove.
The man admitted to assaulting the women but disputed the details provided by his ex partner with a probation report outlining that the man “has distorted views on intimate partner violence” and is deemed to be at moderate risk of reoffending.
Judge Orla Crowe, who jailed the man for 16 months, heard that he no longer resides in Ireland.
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