A man accused of stabbing a garda, arson of Conor McGregor’s Black Forge Inn, and terrorist activity in Dublin has been further held for prosecutors to complete a book of evidence for his trial.<\/p>\n
Abdullah Khan, aged 23, appeared again at Cloverhill District Court for his tenth hearing since being charged on 31 July and has not yet applied for bail.<\/p>\n
He was remanded in continuing custody to appear again next Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Mr Khan, who has an address in north Dublin that cannot be reported due to a court order, was arrested at the scene following an incident at around 6pm on Capel Street, on the city’s north side, on 29 July.<\/p>\n
He is charged with assault causing serious harm to the garda under section 4 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, and the production of a Tactix knife capable of causing serious injury.<\/p>\n
The injured garda, a young probationary member of the force who was on high-visibility patrol with a colleague, received hospital treatment.<\/p>\n
Mr Khan is also accused of endangerment of life and attempted assault of a second garda during the same incident.<\/p>\n
He is also charged with three other offences, including criminal damage related to a fire at Conor McGregor’s Black Forge Inn, Drimnagh Road, Walkinstown, Dublin 12, which allegedly happened on 25 July, four days before the Capel Street incident.<\/p>\n
The other two were under section 6 of the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences Act), 2005, for engaging in terrorist activity or terrorist linked activity, during the alleged arson on 25 July and the knife attack four days later.<\/p>\n
The Director of Public Prosecutions has directed that Mr Khan be tried in the non-jury Special Criminal Court, which is reserved for terrorism or organised crime-related offences.<\/p>\n
Three weeks ago, Judge Mitchell heard that the State had almost completed the book of evidence, except for a forensic statement, described as of fundamental importance.<\/p>\n
Defence solicitor Matthew de Courcy has stressed his client had the presumption of innocence and was entitled to an expeditious process.<\/p>\n
The court heard that the accused, who has yet to indicate a plea, has perfect English. During his hearings, he has spoken only to confirm his name or to confirm instructions to his solicitor.<\/p>\n
Reporting restrictions on Mr Khan’s address have been continued for public safety reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of stabbing a garda, arson of Conor McGregor’s Black Forge Inn, and terrorist activity in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-173183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173183","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=173183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}