Man found in sister's garden shed with knife after her car was damaged is jailed

Irish Daily Mirror

3 hours ago

A Co Donegal man who was found in his sister's garden shed with a long bladed knife after her car was damaged has been jailed for 10 months.
Ryan Campbell appeared before Letterkenny District Court charged with trespassing with a knife, weapon of offence or other article on December 8, 2024.
The charge is contrary to section 10 of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act, 1990.
The 25-year-old was also charged with one count of criminal damage.
Garda Sergeant Jim Collins outlined the details of the case to the court.
He said that at 5.50am on December 8, 2024, a woman contacted Gardai to say two males were banging on her front door at Forest Park in Killygordon.
Her car alarm was going off and she noted that one of the men was her brother, Ryan Campbell.
After initially calling to the woman's home, Gardai returned a short time later and located two males in a shed, one of whom was Campbell, who was in possession of a seven-inch kitchen knife.
Sergeant Collins said that when he was arrested, he sobered up and later apologised over the incident.
Campbell's solicitor, Mr Patsy Gallagher, said his client had recently been sentenced to four years in prison at Letterkenny Circuit Court and now wanted this matter sorted also.
Mr Gallagher added that his client now has four years to look back and hopefully rehabilitate.
Campbell was sentenced by Judge John Aylmer after he pleaded guilty to slashing his victim Robert Kennedy with a blade while the victim was celebrating his 50th birthday in July, 2022.
Mr Kennedy was left with scars which he will have to live with for the rest of his life, the court was told.
He had to undergo plastic surgery and suffered significant scarring to his neck and ear described by a medic as "serious disfiguration" in the terrifying incident.
Campbell was initially charged with intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to Mr Kennedy, but he entered a plea of guilty to a charge of assault causing harm, contrary to Section 3 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997.
Sentencing Campbell for this latest incident, Judge Ciaran Liddy imposed a 10-month prison sentence for having an offensive weapon and took the criminal damage charge into account.