Gardaí on welfare check had to contend with boobytrapped doors, Cork court told

The court heard that the mains power was hooked up to the door handles

Judge Colm Roberts was told that the Director of Public Prosecutions said the case could be dealt with summarily at Cork District Court. File picture

Gardaí responding to a call about the welfare of a person in East Cork found that three doors at the property were boobytrapped to the electrical mains where someone could have been killed by electrocution on touching a handle.

That was the allegation made when 76-year-old Michael Noel Sheehan of Chimney Field, Glenville, County Cork, was charged with endangerment on February 16. When the charge was brought today against the accused, he replied: “I will speak in court.”