Man jailed for threatening to chop students' fingers off during robbery in Cork

One raider said: 'I will start cutting off fingers, on my mother’s life, if I don’t start finding something soon.'

Judge Sinéad Behan imposed a sentence of 11 years with the last two years suspended on 23-year-old Martin Ekhosuehi of Willow Gardens, Brooklodge, Glanmire, County Cork, at Cork at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. File picture: Dan Linehan

Two students were threatened by two intruders armed with a knife and screwdriver that their fingers would be chopped off if they did not hand over cash and drugs, and on Wednesday one of the raiders was sentenced to nine years in jail.

The judge said the students’ one-hour ordeal must have felt like an eternity.