At 4.45am in the 20th September 2016 Gardai received a call to attend St. Marys Avenue, Cork to a possible hostage situation.
Gardai attended the scene and the situation was quickly assessed and verified as a hostage situation. A woman could be heard from an upstairs bedroom calling for help and the front door downstairs could be seen to be barricaded from the inside with what appeared to be a couch. A male was also shouting from an upstairs window at Gardai.
Hostage negotiators and fire brigade and ambulance personnel were requested and attended at scene.
A cordon was put in place by Gardai and negotiators attempted to make contact with the male inside the house.
Shortly after 8am RSU entered the house forcefully and affected a successful arrest of the two male suspects in their 20’s . During the operation, taser, pepper spray and flash bangs were deployed. Both suspects were conveyed to Mayfield Garda Station and detained. One male was charged and appeared before Cork District Ct and was remanded in custody to appear back at Cork District Ct on Thursday the 22nd September. The other male remains in Garda custody. A male and a female in their 50’s were taken to hospital for medical attention with injuries that were found to be sustained prior to Gardai being made aware of the incident.
During the incident a number of items were thrown at gardai from an upstairs window. The occupants of the house were known to each other.
