Threat to slit throats of gardaí

A teenager who threatened to slit the throats of two gardaí outside a hotel shortly after getting a suspended sentence for a violent disorder was jailed yesterday as the judge said he had stretched the elastic too far.

Josh Powell, aged 19, of Ballinacurra, Kinsale, Co Cork, was given the suspended 12-month sentence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court for engaging with others in an act of violent disorder on September 15, 2013.

That case arose out of his peripheral role in the mugging of a young man at Model Farm Rd who was walking home from a night out.