{"id":539499,"date":"2026-07-08T16:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539499\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T16:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:34:13","slug":"man-spat-at-glass-in-the-dock-of-cork-courtroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539499\/","title":{"rendered":"Man spat at glass in the dock of Cork courtroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">A man from Manchester allegedly assaulted a garda by spitting at her, and when he was brought into the dock at Cork District Court he noisily cleared his throat and spat at the glass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Judge David Waters said: \u201cI have just seen him come into court, sit down, and immediately spit at the table in front of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">In the course of the court hearing, the defendant, Owen Wilson, aged 48, of Cornerstore Day Centre, Denmark Road, Manchester, shouted frequently that he was homeless, in physical agony, and said: \u201cBlah, blah, blah, you are talking rubbish,\u201d as the judge and Sergeant David Fleming were speaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">There was no garda objection to bail on conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">However, Judge Waters said that on the defendant\u2019s appearance in court he could not rely on the defendant being in a position to give undertakings required to be released on bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cI don\u2019t think this man is capable of understanding the terms of any bond\u2026 it appears to me it is doubtful he can understand the nature and consequence of his actions,\u201d Judge Waters said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The defendant was remanded in custody until Friday, July 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The assault and threatening behaviour charges against Owen Wilson refer to Anglesea Street on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man from Manchester allegedly assaulted a garda by spitting at her, and when he was brought into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-539499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-court","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539499","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=539499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}