Lorry driver stabbed garda trying to get him ‘dead or alive’

The lorry driver on trial for assault causing harm to a detective at Fermoy Mart said yesterday that he stabbed the guard repeatedly in the hand with the key to his lorry, but only because he believed the officer was trying to get him out “dead or alive”.

Patrick Fuohy, 62, of Ballydaw, Castlelyons, Co Cork, pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault causing harm to Det Garda Denis Ryan at Fermoy Mart in Corrin on March 21, 2013.

“I was that close (Fuohy gestured with his fingers) to dying when I stabbed him with the keys of my lorry. That is the key I stabbed him with. The wounds were within half a crown. I did stab him with it. And I will not hand it (the key) over to Fermoy guards.