Assault accused denied bail

Gardaí went to arrest a man for allegedly fracturing a woman’s cheekbone when he appeared at an upstairs window of a house armed with a petrol canister and later barricaded himself into a room.

These were the allegations made by Det Garda John Gleeson in a Garda objection to bail being granted to David Ross, aged 27.

Cross-examined by Insp John Deasy, the accused man said the alleged incident with the petrol canister did not happen. He also denied that he barricaded himself into the house on a later occasion.