Trial of nail-gun assault hears from protected witness who denies he did not know accused

A protected witness who told the Special Criminal Court he saw a man accused of assault and false imprisonment in the house where the attack allegedly took place has denied that he did not know the accused man.

It is the prosecution's case that three men were involved in a "joint enterprise" during which Dan Quilligan, a resident of Rathkeale, was beaten and his left foot nailed with a nail-gun to the kitchen floor of a house in Limerick.