Man remanded in custody after alleged Garda assault on plane at Dublin Airport
A British man remains remanded in custody tonight over an alleged air rage incident at Dublin Airport.
Gavin Howard Risden, 48 and of no fixed abode, was remanded in custody until next week over the incident in which a garda was allegedly assaulted on a plane that had just landed from America.
The alleged assault happened after officers were called to a United Airlines flight that had just landed at Dublin Airport from Newark in New Jersey.
Mr Risden appeared in court charged with five offences on Tuesday.
He is charged with one count of assault causing harm.
He faces a further two counts of the wilful obstruction of a peace officer under section 19 of the Public Order Act.
He also faces two charges under the Air Navigation and Transport Act 1973 section 2A(2) and section 2A(3) respectively.
One is under section 2A(2), which is of engaging in behaviour that is likely to cause serious offence or annoyance to any person on board the aircraft, at any time after having been requested by a member of the crew of the aircraft to cease such behaviour.
He faces another charge under section 2A(3), which is of engaging in behaviour of a threatening, abusive or insulting nature whether by word or gesture with intent to cause a breach of the peace or being reckless as to whether a breach of the peace might be occasioned.
He was remanded in custody until next Tuesday.
The Garda allegedly assaulted in the incident was taken to Dublin's Beaumont Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
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