Man told woman she ‘was lucky he hadn’t killed her’

Gardaí arrived at a disturbance on the Blarney Road to find a man warning a woman that she was "lucky they came, because I’d have killed you".

Patrick O’Brien, with an address at 18 College View, Blarney St, pleaded guilty at Cork District Court to being intoxicated and engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour on March 30, 2013.

Insp Eileen Foster told the court that gardaí had responded to a call on the night in question and found the defendant in an extremely agitated state.