Man armed with breadknife spat blood at Cork garda 

Judge Alec Gabbett said he would treat the crime of assaulting a Garda as a crime “of the utmost seriousness.”

A man who spat blood at a Garda after he assaulted a woman in her own home and tried to break back into that home with a breadknife was given a three-month suspended sentence.

Gardaí arrived to a residence in Rathcormac, Co Cork, last April to find Michal Kaczmarczyk, aged 21, armed with a bread knife, trying to break into his family home.