THE man facing three charges related to a false imprisonment at a house where it was alleged that a gas cylinder was thrown down stairs at a garda indicated yesterday that he would be pleading guilty to all counts against him.
Bernard Ring, aged 28, of 122 Kilbarry Place, Farranree, was remanded in custody on Tuesday to appear before Cork District Court again yesterday.
His solicitor, Diarmuid Kelleher, said: “In ease of the State, he will be pleading guilty to all matters.”
Inspector Mary King said the matter was in court yesterday for directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions and that these were as yet unavailable.
Inspector King asked to have the case adjourned until October 6 with the accused remanded in continuing custody to appear in court by video link from prison.
In Ring’s unsuccessful application for bail on Tuesday it was alleged that a gas cylinder and a mirror were thrown on top of armed gardaí during a hostage situation at a house in Cork and a threat was made to throw a 25kg dumbbell down a stairs.
Detective Garda Malcolm Walsh arrested Bernard Ring and charged him with three counts related to September 20 at St Mary’s Avenue, Gurranbraher.
“It is alleged that he held his mother and her partner hostage at St Mary’s Avenue and that the front door was barricaded. It is alleged that he made threats that he was not going to be taken alive,” he said.
Taser and pepper spray had to be used in order to effect the arrest, the detective said.
Ring is accused of three counts, namely producing a dumbbell, mirror and gas cylinder in the course of a false imprisonment.
Co-accused, Gavin Ring, aged 26, of 5 St Mary’s Avenue, Gurranabraher, was previously in court on an assault charge arising out of this case.
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