Cork domestic violence trial hears 'sun, lockdown and drink' lead to 'weeks of madness'

A son admitted putting his mother in fear at the family home, including an occasion where he made a threat to stab her and put her in the graveyard.

A very quiet Cork city centre during Ireland's first Covid lockdown in April last year. A mother told a court in Cork today that the first coronavirus lockdown "had a huge part in" a period of madness for her family where a 21-year-old man threatened to stab her and put her in a graveyard. Photo: Andy Gibson

The first Covid lockdown was blamed as one of the factors that caused a period of madness for a Cork family where a 21-year-old man threatened to stab his mother and put her in a graveyard.

The case which dates back to April 2020 was back before an in camera hearing of Cork District Court following a number of adjournments.