Limerick man who threatened suicide ‘feared for his life’

A LIMERICK criminal who tied a rope around his neck and threatened to throw himself off Sarsfield Bridge, sparking traffic chaos, said he was in fear due to evidence he gave at a murder trial.

Jonathan ‘Skah’ McCarthy, 34, was “talked” off the bridge after nearly an hour on Good Friday.

He said: “I just wanted out. I just wanted it all over and done with. I reckoned that if I was gone, my family would be okay and everything else would just go away.”