Nicknames in Court.

Quazzie

This is an old story but years ago I was in a court with a friend offering some morale support as he was in for something silly.

Whilst we were there two of the locals who we knew were called up for a case of fighting whilst drunk on a street. Now their real names were Thomas Murphy and Enda Donegan (not real names for either) but when they were called to stand up they were called as Larry Murphy and Jimmy Donegan. Larry and Jimmy were nicknames that were placed on these people years ago and it stuck so well that they even introduce themselves as Larry and Jimmy.

My question is could they have ignore the summons when it arrived for them as it was obviously made out to Larry and Jimmy and not Thomas and Enda? If they did ignore it on the basis of it not being for them, what would be likely to happen?

Hopefully this makes sense as I've tried to explain it as well as possible while not including real names.

dermot_sheehan

Bench warrant would have issued for no appearance.

They would *eventually* be arrested on foot of the bench warrant and brought to court.

Garda who took their details would give evidence that these two gents in custody were the two gents that were fighting on the street and gave their names as Mr. X and Mr. Y.

Court would be reluctant to grant bail since they have been misleading in giving incorrect names. Gents would get the enjoy the amenities of Cloverhill remand centre while waiting their trial.

Victor

For information: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0811/1224302232246.html

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