Boy buying chips told he would have his throat cut

A 13-year-old buying chips for himself was grabbed and threatened that his throat would be cut with a Stanley blade by a raider demanding money from the employee behind the fast food restaurant’s counter.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin jailed Eoin O’Sullivan, aged 27, of 21 Bridevalley View, Fairhill, Cork, for five years for the armed raid at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

O’Sullivan pleaded guilty to the robbery of €85 at Murph’s chipper on the Old Youghal Road in Cork on October 27, 2013, and producing a knife during the crime.