Jail ‘cannot be avoided’ for verbal abuse of gardaí

Gardaí were verbally abused as “pigs” and one was called “a fucking lesbian” by a man at the height of a disturbance.

Yesterday, a district judge said a jail term could not be avoided.

Jason Wall, aged 28, of 7 Belmont Court, Garryduff, Douglas, Cork, was sentenced to 14 days in prison for his threatening and abusive at Cove St, Cork, on November 20, 2015.