Three Chinese students charged with assaulting and threatening to kill another Chinese person at North Brunswick Street, Dublin, were granted bail by the High Court yesterday.
But Mr Justice O'Higgins was told deportation orders had been prepared, and it was proposed to serve the orders on the three in the event of their getting bail.
The bail application was opposed by Mr Fergus Courtney, for the DPP, who said there was a fear that if the men were granted bail, they would not turn up for their trial.
During the course of the bail application, Mr Courtney said he had learned that the Minister for Justice, Mr O'Donoghue, had signed deportation orders in respect of all three.
Mr Robert Barron, for the Minister, confirmed that deportation orders had been prepared. It was proposed to serve them on the three students in the event of their being granted bail. Granting bail, Mr Justice O'Higgins ordered Mr Jin Cheug Hao (21), of Monastery Heath Court, Clondalkin; Mr Miaolin Yu (21), of Huntstown Close, Blanchardstown, Co Dublin; and Mr Zhan Wen Du (18), Mountjoy Square, Dublin, to report to their local Garda station twice a day pending their trial.
All three are charged with failing to produce their passports, assault and threatening to kill on April 14th.