Man charged over having child sex abuse animation images
Dublin Airport
and found with child sex abuse animation images, a court has heard.
Finley Bowd (21), of Harbour View Close, Brixham, Devon, England, was arrested at Terminal 2 on Wednesday.
He appeared before Judge John Brennan at
Dublin District Court
on Thursday, when Detective Garda Rebecca Doyle said he made 'no reply' when charged with two offences under section 6.1 of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act.
The shop cashier, who had been travelling to New York for a Comic Con event, was arrested and had his phone seized. He is accused of possessing anime images of child sexual abuse and having category-three child pornography anime images.
READ MORE
The judge noted the involvement of Homeland Security, the US federal agency.
The accused has not yet formally entered a plea and was remanded on €400 bail to appear again on November 6th for directions from the
Director of Public Prosecutions
.
Initially objecting to bail because the accused was a UK national and allegedly a flight risk, Det Garda Doyle agreed to bail terms following exchanges with defence barrister Paddy Flynn.
Det Garda Doyle agreed with him that his client was making his way to a flight to New York and there was a 'random stop' at Terminal 2.
The detective also accepted that Mr Bowd was co-operative. Contact has been made with a family member, and gardaí made enquiries with the UK, establishing he has not come to police attention.
Mr Flynn said his client's mother would provide support, and he could be reached on her phone. The barrister said the accused would return to Ireland for court dates.
Mr Flynn said the case involves 'difficult charges' and secured legal aid on behalf of his client.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
The Journal
an hour ago
- The Journal
Man stopped at Dublin Airport with ‘anime' child sex abuse images, court hears
A YOUNG MAN travelling to a comic book convention in the United States was stopped by Homeland Security at Dublin Airport with child sex abuse animation images, a court has heard. Finley Bowd, 21, of Harbour View Close, Brixham, Devon, England, was arrested at Terminal two on Wednesday. He appeared before Judge John Brennan at Dublin District Court today, where Detective Garda Rebecca Doyle said that the man made 'no reply' when charged with two offences under section 6.1 of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act. The shop cashier, who had been travelling to New York for a Comic Con event, was arrested and had his phone seized. He is accused of possessing anime images of child sexual abuse and having category three child pornography anime images. Judge Brennan noted the involvement of Homeland Security, the US federal agency. Advertisement He has not yet formally entered a plea and was remanded on €400 bail to appear again on November 6 next for directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions. Initially objecting to bail, because the accused was a UK national and a flight risk, she agreed to bail terms following exchanges with defence barrister Paddy Flynn. Detective Garda Doyle agreed with him that his client was making his way to a flight to New York and there was a 'random stop' at Terminal two. The detective also accepted that Bowd was cooperative. Contact has been made with a family member, and gardaí made enquiries with the UK, establishing he has not come to police attention. Flynn stated that his client's mother would provide support, and he could be reached on her phone. The barrister also stressed that he would return to Ireland for court dates. Counsel said the accused was of limited means but had €400 on him, which the judge held could be used as his bail money and warned that he must provide a new phone number and until then be contactable on his mother's phone. Describing the case as involving 'difficult charges', Flynn's application for legal aid, on behalf of his client, was granted.
Irish Times
2 hours ago
- Irish Times
Happy Return – Frank McNally on a breakthrough in the case of his stolen Dublin Bike
The good news is that my stolen Dublin Bike ( An Irishman's Diary, August 7th ) has been found, and in one piece. Having disappeared from a pole in Clanbrassil Street Upper on the evening of Wednesday, August 6th, it turned up again the following Tuesday night, returned to a bike station on Parnell Square North. In the meantime, as requested when reporting the theft, I had posted the key to JC Decaux, the service providers. Then I received an email, possibly from a bot that had not been copied in on our conversation, informing me that due to exceeding the maximum loan period for my latest rental by several days I would shortly be charged €150. There then followed a non-bot email reporting the happy news that, the stolen bike having turned up safely, there would be no 'additional charges'. After that, the bot emailer was back on to confirm that the €150 had been 'successfully' extracted from my account. At this point, I sought clarification from the non-bot emailer as to the meaning of the term 'additional charges'. Whereupon, in a shock development, a fully sentient human being rang me to confirm there were no charges due and the €150, deducted in error, would be refunded. READ MORE I am no wiser, meanwhile, as to where the bicycle spent its long, lost weekend or in what circumstances it was returned. We can at least rule out mindless vandals from our list of suspects for the larceny, since the bike was neither damaged nor dumped in a canal. Was it borrowed for a week by a conscientious thief with a personal transport crisis who returned it when no longer needed? Or was it abandoned somewhere by a careless joyrider and then brought to the nearest station by a concerned citizen? I don't know. As a committed Flannorak, barring further intelligence on the matter, I choose to believe that Sergeant Pluck and his colleagues were involved somewhere. Fans of The Third Policeman will recall Pluck's masterly detective work in the case a bicycle stolen from one Michael Gilhaney: a typical crime – indeed the only type of crime known – in the district. It later emerges that the sergeant was able to find the bike so easily because he had hidden it himself as part of his community work, to reduce the insidious effects of molecular interchange in a parish full of iron bicycles and rough roads. Gilhaney, a man of 60 who had been cycling regularly for 35 years, was already 'half-way to being a bicycle', Sergeant Pluck explained to the novel's narrator. Hence his strange behaviour in the police station, where 'instead of standing at the counter as he would in a public house, he went to the wall, put his arms akimbo and leaned against it, balancing his weight on the point of one elbow.' Pending an improvement of road quality and/or in bike suspension systems, the sergeant's intervention was to pre-empt further erosion of Gilhaney's personality: 'If it wasn't that his bicycle is stolen every Monday he would be sure to be more than half-way [to being a bicycle] now.' I hope my Dublin Bike will not be stolen every week. But if molecular interchange is as big a threat as Sergeant Pluck feared, the combination of Dublin's unforgiving road surfaces and JC Decaux's unforgiving bike frames must be having an effect on me by now. Come to think of it, even in public houses, I do have a habit of leaning against walls with one arm. *** An indirect result of the theft has been to make me visit the Dublin Bikes app more often than I did before, checking details of – for example – 'My Journeys'. So I have been puzzled to see that on my return to the saddle this week after the enforced sabbatical, I incurred a charge of €1.50 for a '112 min[ute]' trip from the station outside Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital on Grand Canal Street Lower to the one at Fallon & Byrne's food shop in Exchequer Street. Now I did indeed make a journey between those two stations. But I made it directly, stopping only at a few red lights (I swear) along the way. The trip could hardly have taken 12 minutes, never mind 112, and should therefore have fallen into the free-for-the-first-half-hour category. As, I now see from the app, did my previous 10 journeys, the theft incident excluded. The €1.50 is a minor issue, of course: a mere 1 per cent of what I would have been liable for on the previous rental had the bike not been found. Even so, I'm intrigued as to how it arose, whether there was a rogue bot involved, and how often such things may happen. Or is it possible that I passed through some kind of time warp, like The Third Policeman's vision of eternity, on the short trip between Grand Canal Street and town? Maybe Sergeant Pluck can fill me in.
Irish Times
2 hours ago
- Irish Times
Inquiry into fisherman's death found onboard safety culture below required standard
An inquiry into the death of a fisherman who drowned after going overboard in seas north of Co Donegal found the 'safety culture' on board the vessel fell below standards expected. In February 2023, the fisherman was pulled off the deck of FV Séimi when he became entangled in a rope while shooting lobster pots in waters 60 nautical miles north of Arainn Mhór island, according to the Marine Casualty Investigation Board (MCIB). The fisherman was later retrieved by his crewmates, having been in the water for about 15 minutes. An attempt was made to resuscitate him, but this was unsuccessful. The board's inquiry found that an obligation on a fishing vessel's owner or master to ensure there is a sufficiently qualified crew on board was not observed. READ MORE 'In this case, the absence of sufficiently qualified crew and the vessel's failure to comply with the [Department of Transport's] code of practice, coupled with the lack of drills, formal training, risk assessment, records and safety standards all indicate that the safety culture on board FV Séimi was below the standards that should be expected on board a commercially operated fishing vessel,' said the board. The inquiry into the FV Séimi drowning was one of several documents highlighted in the MCIB's 2024 Annual Report, published on Wednesday. Another inquiry outlined in the annual report examined the drowning of a man off Bruckless Pier, Co Donegal, in September 2023. The inquiry found the man's death was caused by several factors, including that he was operating his boat alone in difficult weather conditions, did not have a life jacket, and had no means of raising the alarm. In another incident, in June 2023, a man was swept out to sea and drowned after trying to board a recreational boat as it drifted from Lacken Pier, Beltra, Co Mayo. An inquiry found his chances of survival would have significantly improved had he been wearing a life jacket. The MCIB is yet to publish a report on the death of fisherman John Burke, the only fatal incident recorded by the authority last year. According to the board's summary of the incident, Mr Burke likely went overboard from his small fishing vessel after it took on water and capsized in seas off Inishbofin Island, Co Galway, last June. The board said Mr Burke had no means to communicate his distress, and the incident went unnoticed until a day later. Mr Burke's remains eventually washed ashore. The MCBI continues to investigate other non-fatal incidents reported last year, including the sinking of passenger vessel Sea Breeze III close to Skellig Michael in Co Kerry.
