Burglar found in teenage girl's bedroom jailed for string of offences in Cork

Warren McGrath pleaded guilty to assaulting four gardaí, threatening to kill two other men and carrying out several burglary-related offences in the Wilton area on the same night.

Warren McGrath faces five-and-a-half years in prison. File picture: Cork Courts

A 17-year-old girl woke in the early hours to find a man in her bedroom and when her father confronted this intruder he produced a knife and threatened to use it.

Warren McGrath pleaded guilty to this and other burglaries today. Defence barrister Emmet Boyle said that the knife was produced by McGrath only as he tried to retreat from the garden of the property rather than at the outset of the crime. However, Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said that was of little consolation to the family involved.