Man rang control room 3 times with threats to shoot gardaí and petrol-bomb station

The garda control room in Cork was contacted by a 999 caller three times in one night threatening to shoot gardaí in the head for seizing his car and to petrol-bomb Gurranabraher garda station.

Sergeant Ann Marie Twomey today told Cork District Court that the caller said: “This is not an idle threat. It will happen.”