Businessman demanded sex and drugs at family’s door

A family of five suffered a traumatic ordeal on a Sunday morning when a drunken businessman home from New York banged on their door at 11.30am and demanding drugs and sex.

John Cavanagh, aged 48, of 13 Ard Colm, Rectory Hall, Castlebridge, Co Wexford, was arrested and kept locked up overnight at Wexford Garda Station, before being brought to the district court yesterday morning.

There, Judge Gerard Haughton ruled that his actions were serious enough to warrant an immediate two-month jail sentence. He refused to consider suspending the sentence, but did fix terms for an appeal, which were availed of later in the sitting.