The Sunday World reunites visitors cost man who appeared in courtroom starkers together with his beloved moggy
Joseph Davis (51) declared himself “the happiest man in the world” after we drove him throughout town to be reunited with much-loved moggy, Oliver.
A distraught Davis appealed for our assist getting home on Tuesday night after he was launched from Cloverhill Prison, the place he’d spent three nights in custody awaiting a bail listening to for visitors offences.
He instructed us: “I still don’t know what’s happened to Oliver.
“I’m worried sick. I haven’t slept in three days worrying about him. He was with me when I was arrested and the last thing I heard one of the guards say was that they were going to put him in the pound.
Joseph Davis said he hadn’t slept for three nights worrying about his cat Oliver
“Cats go one way in the pound … you never get them back … and my phone is dead so I don’t have any idea what happened to him.”
Using our reporter’s cellphone, he urgently tried to ring members of the family in an try and get up-to-date data on the feline’s destiny.
After failing to get a response, he mentioned: “Oliver is the most important thing in my life. I don’t have a wife or children. I live with my parents and I’ve raised him since he was a kitten. I just need to make sure he’s OK.”
Impressed by the sincerity of Davis’s emotions for his feline, we agreed to get him home.
And there was excellent news en-route when his brother rang our reporter’s cellphone and let him know the cat was protected and nicely
“I’m the happiest man in the world,” he mentioned after he arrived home and his furry buddy noticed him and jumped up into his arms.
“You don’t know how much it means to me to have him back. You really don’t!”
Later, Davis instructed us that Oliver was “doing good” after the cat miraculously made his personal approach home.
Davis with our reporter Patrick after his launch
“He was clearly left on the scene ‘cause he had made his own way home, it took him a day and a half to find his own way home. He was found sitting on my window at 4am on Saturday night,” Davis told us.
Having secured bail on his own bond of €300 when he appeared before Cloverhill District Court on Tuesday, Davis won’t have to seem in courtroom once more till April 24 on prices arising from final Friday’s highway visitors cease.
The details of the case had been opened when he appeared earlier than Judge Marie Quirke at a weekend sitting of Dublin District Court.
Davis is charged with Road Traffic Act offences of failing to provide gardaí his particulars and never retaining the automotive stationary throughout an alleged incident on Friday at Dunsink Drive in Finglas.
Judge Quirke heard he refused to put on his garments when dropped at the courthouse.
Garda Eva Mahedy mentioned the accused made no reply to the cost at Finglas station, the place he was provided bail however refused to signal his bond. She added that there was no objection to his bail, however the gardaí sought a €100 money lodgement.
A delighted Joseph Davis is greeted by his emotional assist pet Oliver
“I don’t see his wallet on him today,” the choose remarked, at which the defendant interjected: “You don’t see f***ing anything”.
The courtroom sergeant knowledgeable the choose the person had his property, together with his garments, and “he just won’t put them on”.
The defendant instructed the courtroom: “Let me tell you my story. This is relevant, this is my story. What happened yesterday, I was travelling with my companion pet, Oliver, he normally comes into this court. I was dropping off legal documents pertaining to a legal case in the High Court.”
He then went on to name gardaí “scum”, sustaining that he tried to point out them the paperwork and that he had been “bashed”.
He claimed he had been lent the automotive concerned within the alleged offence and demanded: “Now, where is my emotional support animal?”
The courtroom heard a physician attended him within the garda station and gave him recommendation, however the accused claimed he was seen by somebody who didn’t communicate “f**ing English”.
A delighted Joseph Davis is greeted by his emotional assist pet Oliver
He mentioned he was harassed as a result of his emotional assist animal was lacking.
Davis, who’s unemployed, banged on the glass barrier in entrance of the dock and known as out: “Where is my emotional support animal?” The choose was instructed that the defendant was beforehand allowed to deliver the cat to courtroom with him, offered he stored it on a leash.
Judge Quirke described it as “an impossible situation”.
Davis agreed and mentioned: “Please, I need to find my animal. I’m lost without him, and he is lost without me.”
Judge Quirke set his bail and directed instant medical consideration whereas he remained in custody.
While escorted from the courtroom, he replied that he didn’t want a physician, simply his pet.
The choose assured him: “All that will be looked into.”
She remanded him in custody with consent to €200 bail, directed medical consideration and requested gardaí to search out out what occurred to his cat, Oliver.
Appearing at Cloverhill District Court on Tuesday, the defendant instructed Judge John O’Leary he had been making an attempt to lift bail since Saturday however his trousers and money had been ‘stolen’ from him.
Noting there was no garda objection to bail, Judge O’Leary granted bail within the defendant’s personal bond within the sum of €300 and adjourned the case to April 24 – at which period Davis might be requested to enter a plea.
