I think justice was served here.

Hey, I do not overly disagree here. And I did make the point that Bento didn't set out to kill that day

It's a tragic case, and can be studied and discussed from so many angles.

But, a person retrieving the bike and in the process, brandishing a knife against the thief could be seen as scumbag behaviour

Nope, the prosecution even conceded he was entitled to retrieve the stolen bike.

As for the thief he was a extremely violent career criminal, I doubt asking him nicely would have got the bike back.

Nobody said retrieving the bike could be viewed as scumbag behavior: I added that in doing so you brandish a deadly weapon (knife)

It's this important part that could well see people thinking that Bento's reaction to the steal was OTT

That's why we have a jury - every case is different.

That's all well and good in a perfect world, but what if your teen son became involved (due to circumstances) in a simlar altercation and was stabbed to death for it? Your son, who has never come before garda attention before, and who is not a scumbag.

Lot folks here want to paint the dead teen as a scumbag based off seconds of his life....nobody knows anything about the dead teen, other than this very quick incident where he was stabbed to death durng an altercation with a man wielding a knife

There is no way in hell Bento wasn't an objective flight risk given his actions

Again, his girlfriend booked the flights, the flights that were cancelled that afternoon.

There was no flights when Mr. Bento handed himself into Gardaí the next day.

On January 27, Ms Gerino said she met the accused's partner in the bathroom and she wanted to book a flight and needed help with it. Mr Bento's partner asked the witness if she could use her bank card to pay for the flight as her's was not working, which she agreed to.

Ms Gerino said she was unclear whether the flight was to Portugal or Brazil. The price for the flight was €574 so the witness said she concluded that it was for two people. Asked by Mr Guerin if she had heard about a boy being stabbed and dying at the time she made the booking, Ms Gerino said she had not heard about it but saw on a group that there had been a fight but had no more information.

Under cross-examination by Mr Dwyer, the witness said she did not know that the booked flights were cancelled later that afternoon. She agreed that she knew Mr Bento contacted a solicitor's firm in Dublin later that day and that the accused's girlfriend had tried to contact the Brazilian embassy as well. Ms Gerino also agreed that Mr Bento presented himself at a garda station the next day.

"His actions" were of a man fully cooperating with Gardaí.

Bento placed himself in the category of flight risk

By cancelling flights?

Evil Genius that lad. 😕

it hasn't set any precedent.

Bento reasonably believed he had a knife. that is enough. and I never called you a troll. that was a different poster.

All day, every day, until the end of time, murder accused who display even a hint of being a risk of absconding are put on remand and stay there. It's time you reconciled yourself to that.

Apart from the affluent barrister who has dual nationality.

I look forward to the next high profile case where a murder accused is refused bail based on obvious public interest grounds and your song and dance in favour of the presumption of innocence

See above. What more of a comparable do you need?

Sorry the dual national affluent barrister facing a murder charge who just returned from holidays is a conspiracy?

Okay.

Again, for the 6th time, his girlfriend had booked flights because she was in fear of their safety. The flights were cancelled that afternoon and Mr. Bento handed himself in and fully cooperated with Gardaí, as a person attempting to flee goes, that's a bit shít isn't it? Cancelling the flights and handing yourself in would be the complete opposite to fleeing, wouldn't it? 😂

Considering a Deliveroo driver was attacked that week for merely cycling past a vigil for the deceased her fears were very much real.

But lets nip this in the bud once and for all.

You said.

All day, every day, until the end of time, murder accused who display even a hint of being a risk of absconding are put on remand and stay there

Not so though is it?

A leading barrister, who is accused of murdering a father of four in a fatal shooting on farmland in Tallaght, has been granted bail on Friday evening after the Court of Appeal overturned the rejection of his bail application by the High Court last month

Justice George Birmingham said the accused man enjoys a presumption of innocence and as part of that he enjoys a presumption in favour of bail

Even when a High Court, yes deemed 'hinted" even that he was a flight risk

powerful incentive to evade justice” based on the seriousness of the charge, the strength of the evidence

Your statement is absolute nonsense.

No where does it suggest that either the DPP or the High Court knew that the innocent victims girlfriend had booked flights at the time of his bail hearing.

Now back to what you said, no one ever in the history of Ireland will get bail or will ever get bail if there is a hint of not showing up for the trial in a murder charge.

That's blatantly untrue isn't it?

Of course the High Court knew. It was in the book of evidence* furnished by the State to the High Court.

You'll have no problem providing citation or a link to what informed you so.

In your own good time.