2017-03-27 · Dublin
Former Sinn Fein councillor pleads guilty to false imprisonment and making threat to kill
In a Special Criminal Court hearing, former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall, aged 38, and his father Patrick Dowdall, aged 59, pleaded guilty to falsely imprisoning and threatening to kill Alexander Hurley. The alleged offences occurred on 15 January 2015 at Navan Road, Dublin 7, where the Dowdalls detained Hurley without consent and…