The Belfast man who shot himself after walking into Fitzgibbon Street Garda station failed to turn up at the Special Criminal Court to answer firearms charges in 1996.
Mr Colm Peake, who was then 34, and with an address at Fitzgibbon Street, Dublin, had been charged at Dublin District Court with having a Browning 9mm calibre pistol, a Browning 9 mm calibre magazine and 10 rounds of ammunition on November 2nd, 1995, at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin.
The case was subsequently returned to the Special Criminal Court from the district court. Mr Peake was granted bail.
When the case was mentioned at the Special Criminal Court on December 3rd, 1996, Mr Patrick MacEntee SC, for Mr Peake, said his client was not in court.
Mr MacEntee said his client's case had been diverted to the Special Criminal Court from the District Court and was subsequently adjourned by a bench on which Judge Dominic Lynch was sitting after his retirement from the Special Criminal Court had been directed by the Government.
Mr Justice Morris said the court would make no order in relation to the case.