‘Put your hands in front or I’ll kill you’

An apprentice jockey who followed a student, bringing with him duct tape and scissors, told gardaí he was angry after she rejected his sexual advances, that he was into bondage, and that he could not control his urges.

The now 19-year-old said she had believed she was going to die.

Tralee Circuit Criminal Court heard that Maurice Fitzgerald, aged 23, of Abbeyview, Buttevant, Co Cork, had earlier pleaded guilty to four charges in connection with the incident in Tralee last September.