Cork man's emotional plea to judge for ‘one last chance’ turns nasty

A young man who assaulted a garda made an emotional appeal to a judge to look into his heart and give him one last chance.

But when the judge gave him a 10-month jail sentence, he reacted violently and had to be escorted from the courtroom.

The emotional appeal from the witness box where Aaron O’Halloran was close to tears was followed within two minutes by the angry outburst where he shouted at Judge Olann Kelleher: “For fuck’s sake what’s your problem? What’s wrong with you? You’re sick in the head.”