The mother-of-three said her children were asking why their house was being attacked during disturbances in the Co Antrim town on Monday night.

Garda Sergeant Patrick Martin, Mountjoy Garda Station, told the court that when gardaí turned up at the property at 9 Belvedere Place, Dublin, last night they found that all of the defendants had gone and the property was in the hands of a private security company

Judge Roderick Maguire, who directed that 27 named Romanian squatters in the flats complex be jailed for contempt of court, had not made any order directing that the 11 unidentified people who had attended court be held there by gardaí

“I don’t it, I don’t anything I put on the statement, but I see it’s written down,” said Mr Tache, giving evidence during the trial of Daniel Blanaru (37). 

At issue in this case was whether Ms Mocanu was required under EU law to have relied on her daughter while in Romania to obtain a right of residence or whether dependency only while in Ireland sufficed.