Corkman who told garda 'uniform won't protect her' gets 12 months in prison

The court heard that the man also "spat in her direction, called her a prostitute and whore and said that her family were prostitutes and whores”

The man was drunk and verbally abusive to another garda. File picture

A 50-year-old Cork man threatened a garda that her uniform would not protect her and warned that “he would do six years in prison for her”. 

Now he has been jailed for a total of 12 months at Cork District Court for this threat and another incident where he spat in the direction of a garda and called her "a whore and a prostitute". The same man, Paul McCarthy, pleaded guilty to these offences and to other charges including stealing beer kegs from outside Cork city pubs on two separate occasions.