A Dublin man forced from his flat was threatened by a stranger in a city pub that he would be shot, the Special Criminal Court heard yesterday.
Mr Patrick Pluck said that after he and his partner left their flat in Marrowbone Lane flats he was threatened in a pub in Thomas Street. Mr Patrick Kennedy (50), and Mr Bernard Dempsey (41), both unemployed and from Marrowbone Lane flats, Dublin, were charged on Tuesday under the 1994 Public Order Act with causing violent disorder at Mr Pluck's flat on September 21st last year.
Both are also charged with causing criminal damage to windows and a front door in the flats on the same date.
Opposing bail, Insp Gerard Lovett, Kevin Street, said the charges arose from an incident when the two accused, with a number of other people, attacked the home of Mr Patrick Pluck and his partner in the flats complex.
The inspector said the dispute was a domestic one, over a key to a pedestrian gate in the flats, and was not connected with drugs or anything more sinister. He opposed bail because he feared witnesses might be intimidated.
Mr Patrick Pluck said he had been in a pub in Thomas Street when approached by a man who told him he had a message from Patrick Kennedy. The man said: "This is going to get nasty. You'll get shot out of this."
Mr Justice Barr, presiding, said the court would fix bail at a £5,000 cash lodgment for each of the defendants, who would also be required to report weekly to Kevin Street Garda Station and to undertake not to interfere with or intimidate any state witnesses. The men were remanded until June 8th next.