Here is your latest court round-up for cases heard from February 9 – 13
9 cases heard before Northern Ireland courts this week
- On Monday, February 9, Co Tyrone man, Padraig Anthony James Brolly, 26, was banned from entering Belfast as he was granted bail after seven months in custody. He is one of four people charged with a burglary offence following an incident in South Belfast in June 2025.
- Kevin Duggan, 31, from Co Derry appeared in court on Monday charged with a number of offences which included attempting to incite sexual activity with children. He is alleged to have held the two teenage victims in his home while showing them a machete and spear-type weapon, offered them drugs, and suggested taking part in different sexual acts which they refused.
- Aaron McCready, 28, of Donegal Road, Belfast, appeared in court on Tuesday, February 10, where he was accused of putting his ex-partner into a bath and dangling an electric toaster over the water after declaring he would kill her. he is also alleged to have tried to wrap a light switch cord around the woman’s neck as part of a sustained attack in her home.
- Stephen Patrick David Crumley, 34, who is currently serving a prison sentence, received a further 9 months in custody after pleading guilty to ten charges of burglary and five counts of fraud by false representation. His offending occurred between October 27, 2024 and February 7, 2025 with the crime spree consisting of breaking into a total of nine businesses in the centre of Belfast – one of which he targeted twice.
- Ezra Garfield was jailed for 19 months on Thursday after he set up a fake Instagram account in the name of a woman and claimed she was using it to harass him. He told police that a woman had had called him 17 times and had sent him a threatening Instagram message, however it was later discovered that he had created the account himself.
- A court heard that a man who was found with dangerous chemicals in his house and an improvised grenade had no connection to terrorism and was not ideologicaly driven and suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Radoslaw Kuc appeared in court on Thursday following an incident on January 29, 2025 in South Belfast, as he requested bail.
- Sean Pearson, 32, from Culmore Park in Omagh, Co Tyrone, had an application to vary his bail denied when he asked the courts if his curfew could be extended to watch Derry City. Pearson is awaiting trial on charges dating back to May 2023 following an incident where a group of masked men claiming to be from the IRA held a motorist at gunpoint who was forced to drive an item to Omagh PSNI station.
- Adam Crawford, 26, of Lenadoon Avenue was jailed for 10 months on Friday after he broke a man’s eye socket during a drug-fuelled assault in the city centre. Belfast Magistrates’ Court heard the victim was attacked in broad daylight after he left the Ulster Reform Club with friends on May 25, 2024.
- A former teacher appeared in court on Friday accused of sexually abusing children from two separate primary schools in Belfast. The 76-year-old man is also facing prosecution for allegedly molesting his own daughter as part of a campaign of historic offences. He cannot be named and the schools involved are not being identified to ensure the protection of any complainants.The pensioner has been charged with gross indecency towards unknown children from the two primary schools. The alleged offences were committed sometime over a 30-year period from 1975 to 2005.
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