Man threatened students with scissors during robbery

A convicted arsonist has been jailed for three years after he terrorised four Nepalese students at a Limerick apartment.

Man threatened students with scissors during robbery

Alan Culhane, originally from Limerick, had been jailed for seven years in Britain in April 2001 for setting fire to a house after tying up the occupant.

In this incident, the 35-year-old stabbed two students with a scissors after he broke into their apartment on Lower Glentworth St in Limerick — around 100m from Limerick’s Garda Divisional Headquarters.

Culhane entered the apartment via a skylight window at 1.20am on December 2, 2013. He grabbed a scissors and ripped the phone card from the intercom system, tying up one of the victims. Using a flex from a speaker system he tied up the second man, threatened him by putting a scissors to his eye and demanded money. He then went to the bedroom, grabbed a female by the neck and threatened her boyfriend, saying: “I’ll kill your girlfriend.”

He stamped on the boyfriend’s face three times and cut him on the palm of his hand with the scissors as they struggled, before pushing him into an en suite bathroom.

The alarm was raised by the girl who managed to leave the apartment.

Culhane fled with three phones, a camera and €305 and was arrested nearby. The final 12 months of his four-year term was suspended.

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