Garda threatened with a slash hook

A garda was threatened that he would be killed by a man wielding a slash hook in what the sentencing judge described yesterday an appalling attack.

Garda threatened with a slash hook

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed a one-year jail term on Keith Heaphy, aged 27, of 6 Hegarty Square, Blarney St, Cork, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

Heaphy pleaded guilty to two charges, namely producing a long-handled slash hook and threatening to kill Garda Desmond Prendergast at Hegarty Square on Mar 16.

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