Corkman jailed for spitting on shop security man during first Covid lockdown

Judge Olann Kelleher said: “It was a particularly despicable act during Covid."

James Ryan has now been sentenced to five months in jail for assault and two months concurrent for engaging in threatening behaviour. File photo: Corbis

A 47-year-old man in a Covid-related queue to get into a supermarket spat at a security man when he was told that he had been previously barred from the premises.

James Ryan has now been sentenced to five months in jail for assault and two months concurrent for engaging in threatening behaviour.