A man has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court charged with threatening to kill a Co Meath farmer and demanding money from him for sweeping and putting out the bins.
Ismail Guler (40), North Circular Road, Phibsboro, Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to four charges alleging threats to kill or harm and two charges of demanding money with menaces.
Seán Guerin, prosecuting, said that Mr Guler was a tenant at a number of properties in Dublin owned by John Finnegan, a farmer from Slane, Co Meath, over a period of four years.
Mr Guler ceased to be Mr Finnegan's tenant at the end of December 2005 and the prosecution alleged that on January 10th, 2006, he went to a property of his former landlord at North Great Charles Street. It is alleged he said Mr Finnegan owed him €3,000 for work he had done as a tenant.
Mr Guerin said it was also alleged that on January 11th, a tradesman, Darren Foster, was working on the property when "a Turkish man with a knife in his belt arrived carrying an axe" and told him Mr Finnegan owed him money and he was going to kill him if he did not get it.
The trial continues before Judge Thomas Teehan and is expected to last five days.