Cork man loses appeal against eight-year sentence for stabbing mother's friend during hostage situation

A man who barricaded himself into his mother’s house and stabbed her friend multiple times before armed gardaí were forced to intervene, has lost an appeal against the severity of his eight-year jail term.

Bernard Ring (aged 31), of Kilbarry Place, Farranree, in Cork, pleaded guilty to assaulting John Joe Nevin causing harm and to falsely imprisoning Mr Nevin at his mother’s house at St Mary’s Avenue, St Mary’s Road, in Cork on September 21, 2016.