Former bouncer jailed for stun gun attack

A six-year jail sentence was imposed today on a former nightclub bouncer who imprisoned three women in a bedroom, wounded them with a stun gun and warned that it was 'D-day' and they were about to die.

The terrifying crime was perpetrated by Aidan Horan, aged 34, of Bawnlee Court, Banduff, Mayfield, Cork, and Greenwood Estate in Togher, Cork.

Horan had a row with his former partner Olive Newman over access to their daughter and it got totally out of hand.

He ended up falsely imprisoning and assaulting, Ms Newman, her sister Fiona O'Flaherty and their mother Mrs Geraldine Newman at Mrs Newman's home, also in Bawnlee Court.

Sergeant Colm O'Sullivan who investigated the case said Horan, who was seriously into martial arts, went to the house at 11am on October 30 last year, armed with a baseball bat, two knives and an illegal stun gun that he bought in England.

At the height of the terrifying ordeal, Horan held the three women and his two-year-old daughter in an upstairs bedroom of the house. He struck the three women with the stun gun sending an electric voltage into them that knocked them over.

Horan told the terrified women, "This is D-day. Be prepared to die."

He smashed up the property with the bat.

After 45 minutes he left the house and was arrested a couple of hours later at his own home nearby.

Judge Sean O'Donnabhain said, "The range of weapons he brought with him speaks for itself. He was leaving nothing to chance. He brought a variety of wicked weapons with him and he was willing to use them."

And the judge said Horan's underlying propensity for violence was still uncontrolled and untreated.

It emerged at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that Horan bought the stun gun in England because he thought it would be useful in his work as a bouncer at a number of Cork city clubs.