A man described as one of most violent criminals in Limerick city has been jailed for ten years for threatening to kill a barman (19) who was shot in a pub in Limerick city last year.
Wayne Dundon, of Lenihan Avenue Prospect, received a further three-year concurrent jail sentence for violently assaulting two gardaí while he was being questioned about the shooting at Brannigan's pub in Limerick city last December.
Before imposing the 10-year-sentence at Limerick Circuit yesterday, Judge Carroll Moran said he had to take into account evidence from a senior Limerick detective who described Dundon as "one of the most violent criminals he had ever come across in Limerick city".
Judge Moran, added that he had also taken into account evidence that Mr Ryan Lee, the barman who was threatened by Dundon, still believed the threat made against him "continued to exist".
Mr Lee was shot twice half an hour after he was threatened by Dundon outside his uncle's pub in Limerick city on December 19th last. The court heard that Dundon made the shape of a gun with his hand and pointing it to Mr Lee's head said "f**k you, your dead".
Dundon made the threat after Mr Lee refused to let his 14-year-old sister Annabel into Brannigan's pub. Half an hour after the threat was made, a man wearing a helmet walked into the pub and shot Mr Lee twice, hitting him once in the left knee and once in his right hip. No one has ever been charged with the shooting.
Dundon (27), who has a list of previous convictions both in Ireland and in the UK, is the third in his family now behind bars. His brother Dessie is serving a life sentence for the murder of Limerick crime boss Kieran Keane, and for the attempted murder of Owen Treacy in Limerick in January 29th, 2003.
Another brother, John, is serving a four-year sentence for threatening a witness at Kieran Keane murder trial.