Jail for man over threats to rape wives and daughters of gardai

The court heard the assaults on gardaí including spitting in the face of one officer and lunging at another. Stock image.

A convicted rapist who is seen as a pariah on the streets since his release from jail got angry when gardaí arrested him and he threatened to rape their wives and daughters.

33-year-old George Arundel of no fixed address was sent back to jail today when Judge Olann Kelleher sentenced him to eight months in prison for a number of offences that included burgling a shop, assaulting gardaí and engaging in threatening behaviour.