Inmate asks court to allow him attend funeral

A prisoner applied on humanitarian grounds to be allowed out to attend his mother’s funeral today against a background where he is accused of attacking a woman and threatening to petrol-bomb her home and kill her and her two children.

Michael Rutherford, aged 47, of Chapel Gate, Ballyvolane, Cork has been in jail since his arrest in October by Sergeant Kieran O’Sullivan who charged him with assault causing harm to the woman on Monday evening, October 17, 2016.

The injured party, who is aged around 35, said at the time that she feared for her life and the lives of her two children.