10 years for stabbing mum’s friend in barricaded room

A man repeatedly stabbed his mother’s friend in a barricaded bedroom and told the friend and his mother that nobody would leave the room alive.

10 years for stabbing mum’s friend in barricaded room

Det Garda Malcolm Walsh described yesterday how Bernard Ring got his mother, Rosarie Ring, and her friend, John Joe Nevin, to sit on a bed at the family home after a night socialising. Bernard Ring dragged a wardrobe in front of the bedroom door.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin sentenced Ring, aged 29, to 10 years in jail, with the last two suspended, for falsely imprisoning and assaulting Mr Nevin — someone the accused accepted had always been nice to him.

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