'It’s a wonder he’s not dead': Cork man bit garda after six hours on beer, rum and cocaine

Cork District Court heard he drank a litre of rum after six hours drinking beer in a pub and taking cocaine

The defendant said in relation to the bottle of rum: 'I didn’t drink it all — there was two of us.' File photo

A judge said: “It’s a wonder he’s not dead”, when she read a report that a man consumed a litre of Captain Morgan’s after six hours of drinking beer in a pub and also taking cocaine.

33-year-old Robert McCann of Meadowbrook, Riverstown, Glanmire, County Cork, spoke up at Cork District Court to say in relation to the bottle of rum: “I didn’t drink it all — there was two of us.” Even so, Judge Mary Dorgan said it was easy to believe what the defendant told the probation service — that he had absolutely no memory of what happened on the night.