Cork businessman received bullets in post alongside picture of his children

'Who would do that to someone’s kids — the picture, the bullets — no matter what beef you would have with them, it’s unbelievable.'

Gardaí gathered CCTV leading to identification of the accused who was sentenced at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

An East Cork businessman who was in a deal that collapsed with an international company opened a hand-delivered letter containing two bullets and a photograph of his young children.

The children were getting out of their mother’s car outside their primary school and the letter read: ‘One soft warning. Only one for each knee. Lovely kids.’