Man charged with breaching barring order with threatening emails to mother

Horrific emails were allegedly sent by a man to his own mother, including one in which he referred to her plans to sell her house and in which he asked how the sale would be affected by someone being killed there.

Garda Seán Lee arrested Robert Curran last Saturday and brought him before Cork District Court yesterday on two charges of breaching a barring order by putting his mother, Sheila Curran, in fear.

The first charge related to October 2014, when it was alleged he breached a barring order by sending his mother three texts that put her in fear.