'You f***ing sausage': Cork man jailed for threatening to burn charge sheet and hit garda

The judge at Cork District Court told the accused: 'The language was pretty extreme. When you listen to it now that you are sober you could probably realise that drink does not agree with you.'
'You f***ing sausage': Cork man jailed for threatening to burn charge sheet and hit garda

The man was jailed for threatening to punch a member of An Garda Síochána in the jaw at Gurranabraher garda station in Cork. File picture: Denis Minihane

A 30-year-old man being released from a garda station with a charge sheet and bail bond held up the documents and threatened to burn them and to punch a member of An Garda Síochána in the jaw.

Shane Keating of 23 Fairfield Green, Farranree, Cork, was jailed for a total of eight months for this and other offences.

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