Addict jailed for threat to kill father with a syringe

A young heroin addict who held a syringe to his father’s neck in Youghal and threatened to infect him and kill him was yesterday given a three-year jail sentence with the last year suspended.

Addict jailed for threat to kill father with a syringe

Kevin Bulman, 26, from Youghal, and with a recent address of Penrose Course, Waterford, was sentenced on a number of charges at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

Judge David Riordan said it was a matter of great concern that a man under the influence of heroin could make such a horrible threat to his father and he said the offence and another committed by the accused were at the mid to higher end of the scale for such offences.

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