Man who threatened to kill gardaí jailed for 5 months

A FIVE-MONTH jail sentence was imposed yesterday on a man who threatened to kill gardaí while he had a suspended sentence on condition of keeping the peace.

Michael McInerney of 66A Gerald Griffin St, Cork, had avoided a four-month jail sentence in October for breach of an order in a domestic situation.

Yesterday, the suspension was revoked giving him four months in jail. Then he had one month added for threats he made to gardaí.

McInerney then became verbally abusive to Judge Con O’Leary, calling him obscene names for revoking the suspension, which resulted in a seven-day prison sentence to run concurrent with the other month, leaving McInerney facing five months in total.

McInerney pleaded guilty on Friday to being threatening and abusive during the incident and a second count of being drunk and a source of danger.

Inspector Bill Duane said the incident occurred in the early hours of Friday morning, January 6, in Cork.

Garda Tom Browne and colleagues observed McInerney in a dispute with a female. Gardaí asked him to stop his verbally threatening behaviour to her. The defendant said to gardaí: “Go and f*** yourselves.”

The inspector said that as he was being arrested, McInerney said: “I will kill you. I will remember your faces and kill you all, especially you [Garda Browne].”