Cork death threat trial collapses after complainant's evidence

The complainant told the court: “He probably didn’t mean it. I don’t think he did, really. He was just hot-headed that day."

Gino Delaney was put on trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on a charge of threatening to kill Karen O’Flynn on the afternoon of January 21, 2020. File photo

The trial of a man accused of threatening to kill a pregnant woman collapsed when the woman gave evidence of believing that the young man did not really mean it and was speaking in the heat of the moment.

25-year-old Gino Delaney of 4 Plunkett Road, Ballyphehane, Cork, was put on trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on a charge of threatening to kill Karen O’Flynn on Joe Murphy Road in Ballyphehane when she was on her way to school on the afternoon of January 21, 2020.