A judge today turned down the offer of a book on the Yorkshire Ripper killings from its author Noel O’Gara, whom she had just fined.
Mr O'Gara (68), Ballinahowen, Co Westmeath, pleaded guilty at Dublin District Court to not wearing a seatbelt in Terenure, Dublin, on May 11th last year.
Judge Clare Leonard said the offence "speaks for itself" and fined him €75, ordering that it be paid within three months or he would be jailed for one day in default.
"May I present you with a copy of a book I wrote 20 years ago?" Mr O'Gara asked as he reached out from the witness box offering a volume of his work titled The Real Yorkshire Ripper .
“No, I cannot do that,” the judge said, and proceeded to hear the next case.
Outside court Mr O’Gara explained that he wanted to give the copy of his book to the judge because it was about “a serious crime”.
The self-published book details his theories on the brutal murder of 13 women in a killing spree in Yorkshire, England, in the 1970s.
Last December the High Court barred Mr O’Gara from bringing any further legal actions in relation to Dartmouth Square in Dublin.