‘I am going to kill you,’ woman told by ex-partner

A woman was terrified by her ex-partner, who warned her to board up her house but said it would do her no good anyway, as he was going to kill her.

Inspector Brian O’Donovan outlined the background to the case yesterday at Cork District Court, where John Burke, aged 40, of St Vincent’s Hostel, Anglesea Terrace, Cork, pleaded guilty to charges of harassment and threatening to kill Sharon Lee at Ardmore estate, Passage West, Co Cork.

Insp O’Donovan said the harassment took the form of about 20 phone calls made between November 16 and 18, 2015. In the course of this three-day period, Ms Lee received the phone calls from a blocked number.