Other court stories in brief.
Woman tells court of child and teen abuse
A woman has told Dundalk Circuit Criminal Court that her uncle sexually assaulted her with a number of carpentry tools and a gun when she was a child and a teenager. The woman is one of three sisters who allege he sexually abused them over a 13-year period.
The 59-year-old accused has denied 16 counts of sexual assault on the sisters between 1990 and 2003 at locations in Co Louth.
Yesterday the first sister to give evidence told the jury she was about five years of age when first assaulted. She gave details of the various assaults.
Roddy O'Hanlon, defending, put it to her that if she had been assaulted as described family members who were in the house close to the shed would have noticed she was upset.
The woman denied that her father had brought her and her sisters to gardaí to make the allegations at a time when he was in a work-related dispute with the accused.
The second sister said the assaults began with the accused grabbing at her vagina when she was about nine or 10 years old. As she got older the assaults progressed.
The trial continues before Judge Michael O'Shea.
Rape in Germany - man remanded
A man wanted by the German authorities to serve a sentence for the rape of a woman more than seven years ago has been remanded in custody at the High Court.
Anthony Abimbola (49), with a previous address in Dortmund, Germany, was convicted in 2002 of the rape of a young woman in the city on October 25th, 2000. He was sentenced to five and a half years in prison.
Mr Justice Michael Peart remanded Abimbola in custody to appear back before the High Court on a date in early February.
Youth stabbed man who put him up
A Dublin teenager serving a 12-year sentence for the rape of a homeless woman has been given a concurrent three-year sentence for stabbing a man who let him sleep in his flat.
Mark O'Neill (19). Golden Lane, Rialto, Dublin, is also serving an eight-year sentence imposed last June for robberies on four men which left one of them with serious head injuries and another with only 60 per cent vision in his left eye.
O'Neill pleaded guilty to assaulting Mark Sherry (37), at Ranelagh Road, Dublin, on May 29th, 2005.
The court heard Mr Sherry was leaving an off-licence on Aungier Street when he began chatting with O'Neill and they went back to Mr Sherry's flat to drink.
Later Mr Sherry retired to his own room but was awoken by O'Neill standing over him demanding money and threatening to kill him. O'Neill lunged at him with a knife and stabbed him before leaving the flat.