Drunk driver uses hatchet to break into Cork home and steal keys of another car after crash

Court told accused carried out 'an extremely stupid offence' in a bid to get home

The accused was chased, caught, and held until the gardaí arrived. 

A man who crashed a car on a drunken drive from Ballyhea to Clonakilty decided to use a hatchet to break into a house in Charleville to steal the keys of another car.

The crime committed by James Williamson, of Moses Road, Clonakilty, Co Cork, was described by his barrister Donal O’Sullivan as “an extremely stupid offence".