Tenant threatened to kill landlord

A 31-year-old heroin addict who threatened to kill his landlord and burn down his apartment building with the tenants in it after being asked to leave has been sentenced to five years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Joseph Meade held a knife to his landlord’s throat for three minutes, threatened to slice him into little pieces and demanded €4,000 to leave the flat or he would "torch the place with the residents in it".