WALKS FREE | Man (36) who kicked and bit a gardaafter being caught drunk driving avoids jail
Liam Cosgrove
Sunday World
Today at 12:22
A homeless man who threw punches, kicked and bit a garda on the hand after being caught at the wheel more than four times over the drink driving limit while also under the influence of cannabis, has walked free from court.
Mark Donlon (36), of no fixed abode, was handed a three month prison sentence, suspended for a period of 18 months at a sitting of Longford District Court today following an incident in Ballymahon, Co Longford on December 15, 2021.
The court heard the accused was stopped by Gardaí Allan Doherty and Rachel Carlin who had been conducting a checkpoint in the south Longford town.
Sgt Mark Mahon, for the State, said upon responding to a call of a car allegedly spotted driving dangerously from Mullingar, both officers tracked down the accused where they spoke with Mr Donlon.
Judge Bernadette Owens was told after a strong smell of alcohol was observed from the driver's breath, Garda Doherty attempted to arrest the Westmeath native.
Seconds later, the court was told, Mr Donlon resisted arrest and suddenly "swung at gardaí", resulting in a struggle.
"The accused kicked gardaí a number of times and bit Gardaí Doherty on the hand," said Sgt Mahon, revealing also how Mr Donlon was both "extremely abusive and aggressive" towards both officers.
Judge Owens described the incident as being at the "higher end of seriousness" to come before the District Court. She said while Mr Donlon was clearly in a "very agitated state" on the day of the incident and had no prior transgressions to his name, the court could not overlook the severity of the incident.
She handed down three month concurrent prison sentences, suspended for 18 months for both assault charges.
Fines totalling €500 were also issued for both drink and drug driving offences with Mr Donlon also ordered to hand in €500 by way of compensation.
A four year driving ban was likewise handed down for one of the six dangerous driving charges along with a €200 fine.
Man serving 15 years for homicide tries to escape prison
disguised as a sheep
By Isabel Keane, NY Post
February 14, 2023 3:45pm Updated
He was a real-life wolf in sheep’s clothing.
José Luis Callisaya Diaz attempted to escape from Chonchocoro, a maximum security prison in Bolivia, earlier this month by wrapping himself in sheepskin and crawling through the grassland surrounding the jail.
The inmate, also known as “El Araña,” used his fleece coat to sneak past security and attempted to break through one of the prison’s external walls on Feb. 4.
Despite his sneaky attempts, security noticed Diaz, who is serving 15 years for homicide, was not in his cell.
José Luis Callisaya Diaz wore a sheepskin jacket during his attempted escape.
Jam Press
Photos of his bizarre attempted escape show the prisoner crawling around on all fours in a field while wearing the fuzzy coat before he was taken back into custody.
Diaz thought the cold weather would provide some cover during his escape, prison officials said.
“We inform the Bolivian population that prison security police officers from the San Pedro de Chonchocoro Penitentiary Center prevented the escape of prisoner José Luis Callisaya Diaz (alias El Araña), who took advantage of the inclement weather to try to flee through one of the walls of the external perimeter of the prison,” the Director of the Penitentiary Regime Juan Carlos Limpias said.
I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Man found dead in pool of blood after savage attack by an
aggressive chicken that previously went for his granddaughter
Aoife Bannon
Published: 19:15, 14 Feb 2023, Updated: 20:23, 14 Feb 2023
A MAN DIED after he was attacked by an aggressive chicken, an inquest has heard.
Jasper Kraus, of Killahornia, Creagh, Ballinasloe, Co Roscommon, was found in a pool of blood and had a wound inflicted on the back of one of his legs.
His daughter Virginia Guinan said in a deposition heard at the inquest in Ballaghaderreen that she later found a trail of blood leading to the chicken house.
The Brahma chicken she believes carried out the attack had previously attacked her daughter.
Garda Eoin Browne of Clonark Garda Station told the inquest that on April 28, 2022, he was called out to the scene of a sudden death.
On arrival he was met by paramedics who told him they had carried out CPR but without success.
Garda Browne said the man was lying on the kitchen floor in a pool of blood and had a wound inflicted on the back of one of his legs.
The body of the deceased was taken to University Hospital Galway for a post mortem.
In her deposition, Virginia Guinan, said on the day in question, she dropped shopping off to her father at about 12 noon.
Her father had suffered from ill health, was in remission from cancer and previously had renal failure. He was also on a lot of medication at the time.
Ms Guinan said she was contacted by a tenant at her father’s house who told her what happened.
The inquest heard she arrived at the house and saw blood all over the floor and paramedics performing CPR on her father.
There was a puncture wound to his left leg which had caused massive bleeding.
She discovered a trail of blood from the house to where the chicken house was located.
SHOCK REALISATION
She said she then “realised that it must have been the chicken” that caused her father’s death.
She saw one of the chickens with blood on its claws and suspected it was him who attacked her father “as he had attacked my daughter before”.
In her deposition, read out at the inquest, Dr Annette Jennings said the man’s death was unusual as a wound had been inflicted on his left calf by a chicken.
In his evidence, Dr Ramadan Shatwan said when he carried out the autopsy, the deceased’s face was covered in dry blood but there were no cuts to his face.
DEATH CAUSE
Both lower limbs were also covered in blood. Which, if you can believe NCIS, wouldn't happen if the man were dead before the chicken attacked.
He said cause of death was due to lethal cardiac arrhythmia in the context of severe coronary atheroma and cardiomegaly.
When asked by Ms Guinan if her father had suffered a heart attack, he agreed and said another contributory factor was that the blood supply to the man’s heart was “severely calcified”.
Ms Guinan said the family “knew his heart was bad”.
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