Former boyfriend guilty of false imprisonment

A guilty verdict was handed down yesterday to a man who denied falsely imprisoning his ex-girlfriend for 24 hours where he slashed a big canvas poster of Marilyn Monroe with a machete and threatening that the same would happen to her.

The jury found Michael Lynch, aged 26, who was living at Tír na Spiteóga, Inchigeelagh, Co Cork, guilty by a majority of 11-1.

The victim testified that at one point he boiled water and threw it on her.