Ian O’Connor (29) threw petrol bomb at another family home less than a month later
He also pleaded guilty to arson at Ailesbury Road, Dublin on October 15th, 2017.
Detective Inspector David Harrington told Tony McGillicuddy BL, prosecuting, that on the date in September, Margaret Green was asleep in her apartment along with her three children and woke to find the stairs on fire. Inspector Harrington agreed with Caroline Biggs SC, defending, that O’Connor believed that had he not lit the fire, then his family would have been pipe-bombed. O’Connor was given a bag of cocaine beforehand, but said he did not do it for the drugs.
Detective Garda Shane Cahill told Mr McGillicuddy that in the second attack, William Godson woke to find flames outside the kitchen window of the home of his parents and two younger siblings. He grabbed bottles of water and used them to douse the fire.
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