Prison officer told wife he would kill her

A prison officer was jailed yesterday for threatening to kill his wife, saying: “If I can’t have you, nobody can.”

Greg Lynch had put on surgical latex gloves, snapped them repeatedly at his wrists, and warned Leanne Lynch: “Do you know what is going to happen tonight? I am going to kill you.”

Lynch, aged 40, with an address at Foxborough Rise, Lucan, Dublin, was sentenced to five years in jail. The last three and a half years were suspended on the charge of threatening to kill Ms Lynch at her Co Cork home at about 10.30pm on May 3 last year.