Cork man pleads guilty over gay website blackmail claims
Neil Duggan, aged 45, of Riverside Rise, Rushbrooke, Cobh, resorted to this crime because of a gambling addiction, his barrister Brendan Kelly said at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.
Duggan was scheduled to face trial by judge and jury on two counts of demanding money with menaces yesterday. Last month he pleaded guilty to two related charges. He admitted threatening the same victim at the Silver Key bar and restaurant, Ballinlough, Cork, on April 17, 2017. Publishing details of those two pleas of guilty was not allowed last month pending the outcome of the trial.
