Car parks bring out the worst in people, says judge

A woman queuing up for a space in a disabled parking zone took photographs of a man who parked ahead of her and he grabbed her phone and threw it back into her car.

The disputed incident at the car park of Cork University Hospital became the subject of an hour-long trial at Cork District Court where 72-year-old John Finn of Glencool Lawn, Ballincollig, Co Cork, denied charges of engaging in threatening words or behaviour and assaulting Margaret Mulcahy, by taking her phone from her and throwing it in her face.

Judge Aingil Ní Chondúin commented afterwards: “Car parks bring out the worst in people”.