Threat to cut off teenager’s head

A woman who threatened to cut her teenage neighbour’s head off with a makeshift spear has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.

The Dublin woman pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to aggravated burglary on April 9, 2012, during which she threatened the girl and her boyfriend.

The girl, who was 16 at the time, told gardaí she was watching television with her boyfriend at 6am when her neighbour came into the apartment carrying a stick with a knife at the end.