Two men charged with couple’s false imprisonment

Dan Collins

Gerard Clarke, aged 37, a part-time painter from Upper John Street, Cork, was charged, on two counts, with falsely imprisoning Katie and Gary O’Donovan at 7, Dewberry, Mount Oval Village, Rochestown on May 2/3 last. He was also charged with possession of six rounds of .45 caliber ammunition and faced a second charge of possession of a Colt 45 with intent to commit an indictable offence, false imprisonment.

Edward Gaffey, aged 33, from Dundalk, Co Louth, who is earning 200 per week on a FÁS ‘start your own business’ course, was charged with the same four offences before Judge Uinsin MacGruairc. Solicitors acting for the two men applied for free legal aid. No application for bail was made and both men were remanded to appear before Cork District Court today at 10.30am.