Abusive man told garda he was ‘Jack the Ripper’

"Jack the fucking Ripper" was the name a man gave to gardaí who investigated a disturbance he caused at a hospital emergency department.

Otherwise known as Joseph Murphy, aged 24, formerly of Ballydaheen, Mallow, Co Cork, and now living in Limerick, he appealed a two-month jail sentence yesterday, imposed on him for his threatening behaviour.

Murphy was at Cork Circuit Appeals Court hoping to avoid imprisonment through the holiday period.