Man told woman: ‘I will kill you’ over debt

A man will be sentenced later after he threatened to kill a woman and put her in the boot of his car as she collected her son from school.

The court heard that the threats were made by Thomas McConnell, aged 28, over a drug debt that has since been settled.

He pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to threatening to kill or cause serious harm to Louise Sheridan in Ballymun on Aug 23, 2011.