A pregnant woman watching Eastenders had a kettle of boiling water and sugar poured over her leg by her boyfriend, she told a jury, but he said it was a small amount of water that accidentally fell and blamed a slope in the room.

A pregnant woman had a kettle of boiling water and sugar poured over her leg by her boyfriend, who also threatened that he would kill her and bury her in the woods if she cheated on him, she claimed yesterday.

A 16-year-old boy high on cocaine punched and kicked a woman in the face after she stopped her car when a bottle was thrown.

Violent street robberies have reached epidemic proportions, a judge said yesterday.

A couple who were at home in bed in North Cork were terrified when a man armed with a sledgehammer and a woman carrying an iron bar smashed their way into their bedroom and demand thousands of euro in cash.

The trial of a man and woman accused of carrying out an aggravated burglary in the Mallow area while armed with a sledgehammer and an iron bar was about to start yesterday — but the two accused changed their pleas to guilty.

A raider, who held a knife to a shopkeeper’s chest, ran from the scene when the victim produced a toy gun.

A depressed milkman, who lost his lucrative milk round, resorted to cultivating cannabis in what was described in court yesterday as a small, but sophisticated, growhouse operation.

Snipe, the Garda drugs dog, sniffed out €13,000 worth of cannabis being grown in a field by a 59-year-old Inchigeelagh farmer with an “alternative lifestyle”.

The investigation of a spate of burglaries throughout Cork and Kerry where over €90,000 worth of property was stolen led gardaí to the door of a Lithuanian couple where they found some of the stolen property.