Slash-hook carrier tasered by garda

A TASER gun had to be used by a garda on a man who arrived at the end of a siege situation and ran at gardaí with a slash-hook.

Judge Patrick J Moran imposed a sentence of 30 months, with the last 12 suspended, on Gavin Ring, aged 21, of 6 St Anne’s Road, Gurranabraher, Co Cork, for the incident on January 3 of this year.

Sergeant Dave Foley said a siege situation had developed at the house on St Anne’s Road, where it was alleged that another man was holding three people.