'I will leave your wife a widow' - Garda threatened on duty to get decision on sick pay application in June

A garda who suffered post traumatic stress after a number of threats from criminals - including that his wife would be left a widow - is to get a decision by June on whether he is entitled to be treated as having been injured on duty for the purposes of sick pay, the High Court has heard.

Garda Aidan Bracken, based at Carbury Station in Kildare, was involved in an investigation in 2005 into a Lithuanian gang running an extortion racket in the area.