Man smeared blood over walls of garda station cell

Blood was smeared on the walls and door of a garda station cell by a man arrested for a violent outburst at Cork University Hospital.

The culprit pleaded guilty to charges arising out of that and also counts of stealing a car when he left a house party in Bishopstown and crashing it into a neighbour’s property.

Judge Olann Kelleher said that any one of the charges would merit a jail term but he noted from a probation report and another from Coolmine drug treatment centre that the accused, Christopher Foley, of 6 Father Dominic Place, Ballyphehane, Cork, had managed to turn his life around.