A TEENAGER, accused of using a hurley to smash his next door neighbour’s car, replied: “So what if I did?” but he claimed in court that gardaí concocted that reply.
Gardaí objected to bail being granted to Shane Purcell, aged 18, of 7 Seminary Court, Blackpool, at Cork District Court.
Judge Con O’Leary said the reply by Purcell noted by Garda Rory O’Neill posed a challenge to the accused man’s bail application.
Purcell said yesterday in court that the guard must have made up that reply because he did not say it. “Cops don’t know what they’d be on about,” Purcell said.
Cross-examining the accused, Inspector Mary King asked the accused if he knew the next door neighbour. “She is a tanned girl,” Purcell said. Inspector King thought the defendant had given the neighbour’s name as Tanya. Purcell repeated: “She’s a tanned girl. She is black, like.”
Judge O’Leary noted from the defendant’s demeanour in court during the bail application yesterday: “He is not bothered about whether he goes to jail. He is indifferent. And he is not to be relied upon.”
Purcell was remanded in custody until June 23. He was arrested at around 1.30am yesterday morning, June 16, at Great William O’Brien Street.
Garda Rory O’Neill stated that the accused was intoxicated and aggressive at the time of his arrest and was carrying a hurley at Great William O’Brien Street, a short distance from the scene of the alleged criminal damage.
The guard further testified that the owner of the car alleged that she had seen the accused break a driver’s side window and rear light in her car with a hurley.
Judge O’Leary refused bail and when he remanded the accused in custody for a week, Purcell said, “Nice one,” as he left the court.
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