A Donegal lady dealing with a homicide trial will face a cost of assaulting a Garda later this week.
Nikita Burns is in custody having been charged with the homicide of Robert Wilkin, whose physique was discovered off Sliabh Liag cliffs final summer season.
Burns appeared earlier than Ballyshannon District Court docket on Friday. Burns was dropped at court docket by jail guards from the Dóchas Centre at Mountjoy Jail in Dublin.
Burns is charged with assaulting Garda Declan O’Brien at Ballyshannon Garda Station on August 23, 2023.
The cost is opposite to Part 2 of the Non-Deadly Offences In opposition to the Particular person Act, 1997.
Burns, a 22-year-old with an deal with at West Finish, Bundoran, faces an additional cost referring to the identical date.
She is charged that, additionally at Ballyshannon Garda Station, she did use or interact in threatening, abusive or insulting phrases or behaviour with an intent to impress a breach of the peace or was reckless as as to whether a breach of the peace might need been occasioned.
The cost is opposite to Part 6 of the Legal Justice (Public Order) Act, 1994 as amended by Part 22 of the Intoxicating Liquor Act, 2008.
Garda John McLaughlin gave proof of charging Burns at a earlier court docket sitting. When charged, Burns replied: “I don’t keep in mind.”
A solicitor for the accused instructed the court docket {that a} forensic psychologist’s report for his shopper is ‘in course of’.
The solicitor additionally requested for disclosure of CCTV footage, noting {that a} disc beforehand equipped was clean.
Inspector Rosaleen Logue stated there was no objection to an adjournment.
Directing disclosure to Burns’ authorized crew, Choose Monika Leech put the matter again till October 4, 2024.
Burns and a co-accused Alan Vial (38), of Drumanoo Head, Killybegs are accused of murdering Robert Wilkin at a spot unknown inside the State on June 25, 2023.
Over 2 hundred witnesses are concerned in that case.
On the Central Legal Court docket, Mr Justice Paul McDermott has mounted a date of January 13, 2025 for the trial, which is anticipated to final 4 weeks.
Donegal lady dealing with Sliabh Liag homicide accused of assaulting Garda was final modified: April sixth, 2024 by
