Mother opened up letter with  threat to cut son's face and a mass card

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A woman became suspicious of a letter addressed to her adult son and she opened it to find a threat to cut his face and the envelope also contained a mass card.

The woman from Passage West alerted her son who identified the sender as 58-year-old Desmond McCabe, of 2 Fairfield Court, Farranree, Cork.