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  • 5 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Liam Heylin

    Cybercrime sentencing needs to have a general deterrent effect on accused people and on others, a Circuit Court Judge said on Friday as she jailed a man for two years for setting up an internet site to sell malware and credit cards. The accused man was investigated in Ireland by An Garda S√≠och√°na and also by the FBI in America and tracked down to his home address in Douglas and found to have ‚ā¨80,000 in cryptocurrencies as a result of online criminality.

  • 5 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Liam Heylin

    The grandmother of the six-month-old baby girl at the centre of a child cruelty trial said the accused man had come up with "faked" photos of marks on the baby from when she was minding the child. The accused is the father of the child and partner of this witness’s daughter. He denies cruelty and assault. The grandmother was called as a prosecution witness in the case and was cross-examined on Friday by defence senior counsel Ray Boland.

  • 5 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Liam Heylin

    Sentencing of a woman whose passport fraud called into question ‚Äúthe integrity of both the Irish birth certificate registration system and the Irish passport system‚ÄĚ has been further adjourned for a psychiatric report. Detective Sergeant Keith Cleary of the Garda National Immigration Bureau outlined the intricate details of how frauds were carried out by the foreign national, who got a Cork man to pretend he was the biological father of one of her children.

  • 6 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Liam Heylin

    A woman was held up against a wall during a violent attack in Cork City and it was only because she held up her hand to protect herself that she avoided being struck in the face with a broken bottle. Sentencing of a 39-year-old man for attacking the woman in Cork City centre was adjourned until October 30 at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

  • 6 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Liam Heylin

    A 63-year-old woman said on Thursday it was beyond evil to be attacked by her husband who poured boiling water over her and struck her head with a claw hammer while she was asleep in her own home. 64-year-old Noel Twomey of 18 Carbery Grove, Knocknaheeny, Cork, faced sentencing on Thursday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court where Detective Garda Mick Dolan described the background to the extremely violent attack and read the impact statement on behalf of the victim.

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