Neighbours woken by music at 5am

Neighbours complained to gardaí about a man playing loud music in his van after 5am but the man claimed yesterday his wife sent him out to his van so that he wouldn’t be making the noise at home and waking the family.

Complicating the scene encountered by gardaí was the fact he had a slash-hook with him at the time.

Inspector Mary King said when Garda Patrick O’Sullivan and Garda Deirdre Daly approached Stephen Lyons, aged 35, outside his house at 45 Liam Healy Road on Cork City’s northside in the early hours of July 14, 2013, he was playing loud music. Residents in the area who were woken up had complained to gardaí.