Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Stab victim’s family sue 5 men on death
Flyer held after allegedly running on tarmac at airport Man charged with damage to door lock is granted bail
THE family of a man stabbed to death are suing five males convicted of offences linked to his killing, it has emerged.
A High Court civil action has been brought by relatives of Gerard Devlin, 39, who died in front of his children and partner outside their home in West Belfast in February 2006.
They claim they were denied justice after murder charges were dropped.
Five members of another family pleaded guilty to lesser offences.
Francisco Notarantonio, 31, from Belfast, was jailed for 11 years after admitting a charge of manslaughter.
Four other members of his family pleaded guilty to affray receiving sentences ranging from a one-year suspended term to two years’ imprisonment. A MAN arrested after allegedly chasing and trying to flag down a plane at Dublin Airport “mooned” at photographers as he left court.
Patrick Kehoe, 23, yesterday bared his backside hours after a man was stopped running on to the tarmac at Terminal 1.
Ryanair staff and airport police stopped a passenger while he allegedly chased and tried to flag down a plane bound for Amsterdam.
It is believed he was late for his flight but got through the boarding gate and a door leading to the tarmac.
The passenger was restrained and held until gardai arrived and took him to a Garda station.
Kehoe was brought before Dublin District Court over the 7am incident.
The defendant, from Raheenaskeagh in Oulart, Co Wexford, is accused of criminal damage to a magnetic door lock at Gate 106 at the airport.
Dressed in a grey padded jacket, grey tracksuit bottoms and runners, the unemployed man stood before Judge Bernadette Owens. She asked him if he had a solicitor and he replied, “No”.
He made the same response when the judge asked him if he was working and if he had the name of a lawyer.
Kehoe added: “I don’t know any of them, do you want to choose me one?”
The judge said she could and assigned solicitor Peter
Connolly to act for the accused. Garda David Cahill told the court he arrested Kehoe at Dublin Airport at 7.50am and brought him to Ballymun station.
He added: “He made no reply to the charge after caution.”
Garda Cahill said he did not have directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions yet and he sought a six-week adjournment.
There were no objections to bail but Garda