Woman made knife threat over request to move dog from child

A Female armed herself with a kitchen area knife and threatened a father when he questioned her to move her pet away from his two-year-aged child.

atasha Tynan (35) “took exception” to becoming requested to just take her pet when the mothers and fathers became worried that it was “in the vicinity” of their child.

She was jailed for 6 months at Dublin District Court docket.

Tynan, from Cromcastle Courtroom, Kilmore, Coolock, pleaded responsible to producing a knife in the program of a dispute.

The courtroom listened to the incident happened at Cromcastle Court docket on April 16, 2020.

Garda Sergeant Maire McDevitt claimed Tynan was associated in a verbal argument with a married few that centred all-around her dog getting around their two-12 months-old child.

Tynan took exception to getting asked to choose her dog absent from the little one and went residence and acquired a massive kitchen knife. She returned with it and threatened the child’s father.

Independently, the accused also admitted shoplifting €99 well worth of cosmetics from Superdrug, Jervis Street, on May 16 this yr.

The court docket listened to in that incident she put the goods in a bag and handed all details of payment.

Tynan was stopped by protection, gardaí have been notified and she was arrested and billed.

She had 14 preceding convictions, for general public buy and other offences.

Tynan apologised for her actions and recognized accountability for what she experienced carried out, her solicitor reported.

The accused had had “her possess complications about a time period of time” and her father passed away recently.

Tynan had also experienced addiction and psychological well being issues which she experienced struggled with.

She was by now in custody when she appeared in court docket, getting been incarcerated given that the working day she was arrested for shoplifting in May.

Her defence said Tynan’s preceding document was “not the worst” the court had found and questioned Choose Bryan Smyth to be as lenient as he could in the situations.

Judge Smyth explained it was a “serious matter” for the accused to have bought a knife and threatened the victim.

It was deserving of a prison sentence, he reported, but he again-dated the six months to when Tynan had absent into custody.

The choose took the other cost into consideration and fastened recognisances in the function of an charm.