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Enoch Burke: Family Members to Be Arrested and Jailed
Martina and Ammi Burke were jailed for disrupting court proceedings linked to a school dispute, with a judge highlighting their defiance and faith-based rejection of the rule of law.
- On Wednesday, Mr Justice Brian Cregan ordered the immediate arrest and two-week committal of Martina and Ammi Burke for contempt, directing gardai to arrest them as neither was in court.
- Amid a Wilson's Hospital School application, gardaí removed the women after loud interruptions on February 20, which the judge said prevented proper hearing and was interference with justice.
- During a February 25 hearing, Ammi Burke said she 'won't sit silently by while my brother's constitutional rights are being denied', but the judge said 'nothing she said could amount to a justification of defence or explanation for her behaviour'.
- The judge ordered that Ammi Burke, solicitor, and Isaac Burke be barred from attending future hearings in person, only permitting remote attendance, and said he would send papers to the Law Society disciplinary committee.
- Courts have required at least ten guards at Burke-related hearings, a situation called `completely abnormal`; the judge gave the family a three-week deadline to lodge submissions and noted Enoch Burke has been imprisoned for more than 600 days.
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'Impervious to reason': Judge jails Enoch Burke's mother and sister for contempt of court
Also, Mrs Martina Burke, Ammi Burke and her brother Isaac Burke may not be allowed to attend hearings in person at the Four Courts involving Enoch Burke in the future, but may be allowed to by videolink
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