‘Menace’ to suburb jailed over threat to garda during incident

A district court judge yesterday jailed a man for five months, saying he was a menace for people living in the Blackrock area of Cork and, for some reason, had seemed to think he was an important person in that part of the city suburb.

Luke Taylor of Cherry Lawn, Blackrock, pleaded guilty to engaging in threatening behaviour during an incident where he seemed to know a garda, said he knew where he lived, and said he would get him.

Judge Olann Kelleher said of Taylor: “He seems to think he is someone important down there. He is always in trouble there and a menace to the people living there. These threats cannot go on — telling guards he knows where they live and so on.”