Man told ex-boss: ‘I’m coming to drain your blood’

“I am coming to drain your blood, I am just close to your jugular vein,” a man warned one of his ex-employers by email in a dispute over unpaid wages, Trim Circuit Court has heard.

Mohammad Boodoo, aged 51, who is from Mauritius and of no fixed abode, was found guilty on three charges of threatening to kill or cause serious harm to members of a Co Meath family and a further count of threatening to kill or seriously harm a garda.

The court heard the threats to the family were made by email on August 13 and 15, and October 20, 2015.

Priscilla Connolly told Carl Hanahoe, prosecuting, that Boodoo had worked as a spray painter for a Co Meath- based firm operated by herself and her partner Fergal Rooney between June and August last year.

Ms Connolly said her partner had been unhappy with the quality of work carried out by Boodoo over the August bank holiday weekend and it was decided not to pay him in full for this work but to pay him €200 instead of €400.

She said she later received a number of emails from the defendant on August 13 demanding payment.

In one, Boodoo accused her of being a robber and warned she had until 4pm that day to pay him his money otherwise he would destroy “the serpent, the partner serpent and the baby serpent”.

In another he warned her soul would never be at peace in her grave.

In an email later that month entitled “Kids Involved” he said: “you are the serpent. I will destroy you one by one”.

Ms Connolly said she had not responded to any of the emails and felt extremely alarmed and upset and contacted the gardaí.

She said in an email on October 20 after the defendant had been questioned by gardaí Boodoo warned: “I am coming to drain your blood. I am just close to your jugular vein”.

Fergal Rooney told the court that after getting a phonecall from Boodoo he felt scared and frightened for himself and his family.

Garda Michael Kilkenny said he had phoned Boodoo about the allegations and the defendant went into a rant over the money owed to him and threatened he would kill the garda as well the family.

When the defendant was arrested and questioned he told gardaí he had sent the emails as he “only wanted his money” and said he could not even kill an insect.

Boodoo claimed Ms Connolly and Mr Rooney had gone to the gardaí to avoid paying him.

In evidence to the court Boodoo said he had been in Ireland for nine years, was homeless by choice and worked to send money home to his family in Mauritius and pay college fees for his son who was studying medicine in China.

Judge Griffin was told that Boodoo was already the subject of a deportation order and the judge imposed a five-year sentence which he suspended on condition that Boodoo agree to his deportation and not return to Ireland for at least 10 years.