A 39-year-old man has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of a man in Co Cork earlier this month. <\/p>\n
Security was tight as Alfred Gjonaj, an Albanian national, was brought to a special sitting of Fermoy District Court on Monday where he was charged with the murder of Paul \u2018Bosco\u2019 O\u2019Connor (56). O\u2019Connor was shot dead in Cork earlier this month.<\/p>\n
The charge alleges that Gjonaj murdered O\u2019Connor on a date unknown between October 14th and October 15th at Ballyellis, Mallow, Co Cork.<\/p>\n
Det Garda Noelle McSweeney of Mallow Garda station, gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution and told the court Gjonaj made no reply to the charge after caution.<\/p>\n
Garda Insp Tony O\u2019Sullivan said given that bail was not available at District Court level to a person accused of murder, he was seeking a remand in custody for Gjonaj.<\/p>\n
He also sought that Gjonaj\u2019s address would not be published for security reasons. Judge John King made an order directing the press not to publish any such details.<\/p>\n
Defence solicitor David O\u2019Meara said he had explained to his client that bail was not available to him on a murder charge at District Court level and his client understood the situation.<\/p>\n
He said he was applying for free legal aid for his client. The judge adjourned granting free legal aid pending the filing of a statement of means by O\u2019Meara on Gjonaj\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n
The judge also granted the State application and remanded Gjonaj in custody. He will to appear again on Tuesday by video link, at a Mallow District Court sitting in Fermoy, for instructions of the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n
Gjonaj, who was dressed in a grey tracksuit, did not speak during the three-minute hearing, which was also attended by a family member of the deceased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 39-year-old man has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of a man in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-666047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cork","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666047","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=666047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}