Drunk suspect threatened to bite off garda’s nose

A garda was threatened in the back of a patrol car by a prisoner who said he would bite off his nose.

The driver, Garda Des Prendergast, testified at Cork District Court yesterday that he had to stop the patrol car a number of times en route to Mayfield Garda Station on the night because of the aggression Patrick O’Brien showed to his colleague, Garda David O’Sullivan, in the back of the car.

Gardaí went to Pope’s Quay, Cork, at 2.30am on April 8 to investigate a report of a serious assault. O’Brien was there and was offered the assistance of an ambulance, but he refused it.