Thug who blew off own hand with pipe bomb calling himself 'Captain Hook'
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A thug who blew his own hand off with a pipe bomb has posted a series of bizarre videos from his hospital bed – and called himself 'Captain Hook'.
The 35-year-old criminal, who has more than 80 convictions to his name, lost his hand after a suspected pipe bomb exploded at his Dublin home last week. Gruesome photos emerged of the man's horrific injury – showing he had completely lost his hand.
The career criminal, who recently served a five-year prison sentence for burglary, has posted a series of videos from his bed in Beaumont. He showed off his handless arm and bizarrely issued threats at Taoiseach Micheal Martin and others.
He says in the video publicly posted on TikTok: 'When this accident happened to me…a firework blew me hand off, right people, youse probably know what happened or whatever youse are seeing things in the papers and bulls**t.' He says in another video: 'I'm out of it on the morphine, right I have no hand but f*** it, you've to go on with it yeah.'
He adds: 'I haven't been questioned by any police since I came here in the hospital. I'm still here now. I'm sitting here in the hospital, Beaumont.'
And in a threatening message to the Taoiseach, Tanaiste, Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald and the Gardai he said: 'You want to get your guards in line because if you don't get them in line because when I get out of here I'm going to get justice one way or another. Because the law is on my side, Micheal.
'You, Simon Harris, Mary Lou, the whole lot of youse, you deserve what's coming to you and I promise you youse are gonna get it by the Irish people.'
In subsequent videos the dopey crim says: 'Wake the f*** up because the people woke the f*** up and I'm coming for you. One hand or not, you can call me what you want, yeah I'm gonna get a hook for this. You can call me Captain Hook. I'm coming for you.'
Gardai confirmed they 'attended the scene following report of an incident of criminal damage at a residential location in Coolock in the early hours of Wednesday'. The statement continued: 'A man, aged in his 30s, subsequently received treatment for serious injuries at Beaumont Hospital Dublin.'
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