Border Fox guilty of false imprisonment & assault
Ex-terror chief is released on bail
FORMER terror chief Dessie O’hare yesterday pleaded guilty to assault and false imprisonment charges.
The one-time INLA leader, known as the Border Fox, admitted the offences at the non-jury Special Criminal Court in Dublin.
Lawyers acting for the 62-year old confirmed he assaulted John Roche, causing him harm, at The Towers, Garter Lane, Saggart, Co Dublin, on June 9, 2015. He also admitted falsely imprisoning Martin Byrne at Rathcoole and Saggart on the same date. Defence barrister Sean Guerin told the threejudge court a trial would not be required and his client could be arraigned on two of the counts.
He said he would ask the court to take two other counts into consideration.
When the registrar asked him how he was pleading to the charges, O’hare, of Slate Rock Road, Newtownhamilton, Co Armagh, replied “guilty” to both. Judge Tony Hunt, presiding, sitting with Judge Patricia Ryan and Judge Ann Ryan, remanded him on continuing bail with the same terms and conditions until April 3 when he will be sentenced.
The accused was once the most wanted man in Ireland.
In 2006, O’hare was released after serving 17 years of a 40-year THE wreckage of a plane lies among buildings after crashing near an airport in bad weather.
Only one of the 16 people on the Boeing 707 survived the disaster. yesterday, the Iranian army said.
The flight engineer was taken to hospital. The black box of the cargo sentence for kidnapping, torturing and mutilating dentist John O’grady. In 1987, O’hare abducted and tortured Dr O’grady and demanded a Ir£1.5million ransom for his release.
During the three-week drama, O’hare cut off two of the dentist’s fingers and left them for his family to find. He claims he has no links to terrorism but sells republican memorabilia. plane, pictured embedded in a house, was reportedly found at the site near Iranian capital Tehran.
State TV said rescue teams went to the scene between Fath Airport and Payam International, where the plane was meant to land.
Fath belongs to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps. The army said: “A Boeing cargo 707 had an emergency landing at Fath.
“It exited the runway during landing and caught fire after hitting the wall at the end.” An army spokesman added the plane was Iranian, as were all on board.