Gang fire on and injure new garda

A ROOKIE garda had a narrow escape when a gunman fired at him from point blank range only for the bullet to hit the garda’s torch and deflect into his hand.

The attack prompted further calls yesterday for mandatory jail terms for attacks on gardaí.

Garda Joseph Glacken, just out of Templemore Garda College and aged in his 20s, had a baptism of fire when he went to the scene of an armed raid on a petrol station.