Man ‘lost the head’ in threat to kill woman

A six-month suspended jail sentence was imposed yesterday on a man who threatened to kill the woman with whom he had an on-off relationship.

Bail had been refused on Monday despite claims by the accused the words used in phonecalls and text messages were just empty threats.

Diarmuid Kelleher, defence solicitor, said: “Every so often there are verbals between them. He did use words but he says they were empty threats, just words.”