A Liberian man who had claimed at a sitting of Ballyhaunis District Court in June that he had been asked by a man who accused him of assault to smash up his van so he could make an insurance claim, was this week found guilty of assault and sentenced to three months in prison.
Steve Issac with an address at the Old Convent, Ballyhaunis, had told the court in June that Amar had asked him to smash up his van so Satter could claim on the insurance and that he had reported this to the Gardaí.
Judge Mary Devins adjourned the case in June so that Garda Alan Ryan who was prosecuting Issac for an assault on Mr Satter on Abbey Street, Ballyhaunis, on December 4 2010 could investigate the claim by Isaac that he made a report to the Gardaí. In court this week Garda Ryan said that he spoke to all the gardaí in Ballyhaunis and no one had a record of a complaint like that being made by Issac.
Judge Devins told Issac that he had made serious allegations that were not true, before she convicted him of assault and sentenced him to three months in prison and fined him €500. For a public order incident arising out of the same assault she convicted and fined him another €100.
