Nine months for prison officer threat

A 28-YEAR-OLD man jailed by the Special Criminal Court in connection with extortion threatened to kill a prison officer while in custody on another matter, a court has heard.

Christopher McCormack, with addresses at Hyde Road and Wolfe Tone Street in Limerick, was one of seven men sentenced at the Special Criminal Court earlier this year following a Garda probe into extortion.

McCormack had received a three-year sentence.