Sentence adjourned in six-hour-siege case

A man who threatened to kill a woman, a child and gardaí during what was described as a six-hour siege where a garda crisis negotiator had to intervene has had his sentence adjourned by Judge Patricia Ryan.

Walter McCarthy (aged 39) who is currently living in transitional housing with the help of Focus Ireland, demanded beer, a gun, a psychiatrist and a priest as gardaí talked through a letterbox trying to persuade him to come out of the house in Finglas, Dublin where he was holding the woman and child hostage.