Boxer avoids jail over threat to kill

A contender for a national boxing title has avoided jail after pleading guilty to making threats to kill or cause serious harm.

Boxer avoids jail over threat to kill

Evan Metcalfe, aged 22, told a worker in a mobile phone shop that he would “get” him after work. The victim told gardaí that Metcalfe was right up in his face and behaved in an extremely threatening manner.

Metcalfe, of Captain’s Rd, Crumlin, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to making threats to kill on two occasions. The first was at a house in Walkinstown on August 19, 2013. He was on bail for this offence when he threatened the worker at the Ashleaf shopping centre on July 6, 2015.

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