A round-up of other crime news in brief
Gardaí question four over shooting
FOUR people were being questioned by gardaí last night in connection with the shooting dead of Aidan O'Kane in Dublin last weekend. A total of six people, five males and a woman, aged between 13 and 19, were arrested on Monday.
Of those six, five were released from Garda custody yesterday. Another teenager was arrested for questioning yesterday morning and a man and woman, both in their 30s, were also detained.
Of the nine people arrested to date all have been detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act. Eight were questioned on suspicion of withholding information. The ninth person, a teenage boy, was questioned about the possession of the gun used to kill Mr O'Kane.
The 50-year-old father of one was gunned down as he chased a group of teenagers down a laneway on Sunday just after 7pm near his home on Shelmalier Road, East Wall. The murder weapon has still not been recovered.
Chef pleads guilty to hoax calls
A former chef at Bewleys Hotel, Dublin airport, who made hoax calls stating there were bombs in the hotel car park and kitchen has been given a suspended sentence by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
David Lamb (33) had been sacked from his job a few days before the incident and told gardaí he made the hoax calls because he had a grudge against the hotel, adding: "I think they should have been a little more fair to me."
Garda Sinéad Greene told the court Lamb lost his job because he took days off to spend time with his terminally ill father after the hotel had refused him the time. His father died in the month following the incident.
Garda Greene said she and several colleagues were called to the hotel on November 7th, 2006, by staff concerned about a bomb scare in the car park. Lamb, Tonlegee Road, Raheny, Dublin pleaded guilty to knowingly making a false report. He had previously received a suspended sentence for similar hoaxes and committed this offence during the suspended term.
Relatives admit gun offences
Three members of the same family will be sentenced early in the new year after they each pleaded guilty to firearms charges connected to a shooting in Limerick city last May in which a six-year-old girl was injured.
The girl was hospitalised with minor pellet wounds to her leg when she was caught in crossfire between the occupants of two cars travelling at speed through the Lilac Court, Southill.
Eric Curtin (44), Hillview Drive, Kilteely, Co Limerick and his two nephews, Christopher Curtin (38), Southill and Paul Curtin, (27), Rearcross, Co Tipperary and Cappamore, Co Limerick appeared before the Circuit Criminal Court in Limerick where they pleaded guilty to the unlawful possession of a shotgun at Lilac Court, O'Malley Park, on May 31st.
Jail for sexual assault on girl (7)
A man who sexually assaulted a seven-year-old girl was jailed for three years at Wicklow Circuit Criminal Court yesterday. The offences occurred at the girl's parents' Co Wicklow farm where the now 46-year-old man worked 24 years ago.