Hunter said he would slit man’s throat

A day’s rabbit-hunting erupted later on with a young man producing a kitchen knife and threatening to slit another man’s throat in a heated dispute.

Aaron Babbington had been hunting rabbits all day on May 22 last year and was later in a row with a man at a relative’s house at Fairfield Avenue, Fairhill, Cork.

He pleaded guilty yesterday to being in possession of the knife, being threatening, and being drunk and a source of danger.