Suspected car thief claims Cork gardaí threatened to shoot him

Luke Taylor said he had nothing to do with another charge—the theft on November 6 of €590 worth of clothes from Lifestyle Sports at Wilton shopping centre

Judge Mary Dorgan refused bail and remanded 26-year-old Luke Taylor of Kingfisher, Jacob’s Island, Cork, in custody until November 16.

Gardaí investigating the theft of a new Mercedes van saw a young man approaching it with the key and they said he fled from them.

However, the accused claimed that the only reason he ran was because they threatened to shoot him. These different claims by gardaí and by the accused emerged during an application for bail at Cork District Court on Thursday, November 9.