Witness says she recognised accused

A WOMAN working behind the counter of a filling station described how she got a fright when she encountered a man carrying what appeared to be a knife shouting: “Give it to me, give it to me.”

At Cork Circuit Criminal Court, Patrick Constant, aged 28, of Riverview Estate, Tower, Blarney, Co Cork, denied a charge of carrying out a robbery of €500 at the Daybreak/Texaco filling station at Tower on May 12 last year.

Judy Mitchell was working in the shop on May 12.