'I'll slaughter you all': Jail for grieving man who threatened gardaí with air gun

Gerard Curtis (32) was still wearing his funeral clothes, his mother having been cremated the day before, when he stood on a second floor balcony and directed abuse at the gardaí below.

By Sonya McLean

A grieving man who pointed an air gun at three gardaí after threatening that he would slaughter them all has been jailed for 28 months.