{"id":160818,"date":"2025-11-26T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/160818\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:00:10","slug":"alleged-victim-in-branding-stamp-trial-fails-to-appear-in-court-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/160818\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged victim in &#8216;branding stamp&#8217; trial fails to appear in court for second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pictured from top left clockwise; Kenneth Fitzsimons, Dean Fitzsimons, Brandon Hennessy, Jason Hennessy Jr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/REEN IMAGE TEMPLATE.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Pictured from top left clockwise; Kenneth Fitzsimons, Dean Fitzsimons, Brandon Hennessy, Jason Hennessy Jr<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The alleged victim in the trial of four men accused of producing a &#8220;branding stamp&#8221;, an axe and a steel bar while assaulting and falsely imprisoning him in a Dublin house, failed to turn up in court for a second time this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The trial of brothers Jason Hennessy Jr (28) and Brandon Hennessy (22), as well as Kenneth Fitzsimons (45) and his son Dean Fitzsimons (25) was due to begin at the non-jury Special Criminal Court today but the alleged victim, Barry Moore, was not present, meaning the trial has now been adjourned to next Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pictured from top left clockwise; Kenneth Fitzsimons, Dean Fitzsimons, Brandon Hennessy, Jason Hennessy Jr The alleged victim in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-160818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}