{"id":23333,"date":"2025-09-15T18:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/23333\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:43:06","slug":"trespasser-who-threatened-to-box-the-face-off-cork-homeowner-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/23333\/","title":{"rendered":"Trespasser who threatened to &#8216;box the face off&#8217; Cork homeowner sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A householder who asked to see a copy of the insurance to cut down trees from a man who arrived at his door asking to go on to his property indicated that he did not wish to give a victim impact statement in respect to the threat made to \u201cbox the face off\u201d him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sentencing in this particular matter had been adjourned until today for a victim impact statement. Sergeant John Dineen said the victim did not want to make such a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">42-year-old Jerry O\u2019Sullivan of 7 Hazelwood Grove, Kinsale Road, Cork, pleaded guilty to engaging in threatening behaviour and trespassing on the curtilage of the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge Mary Dogan said the householder\u2019s request to see the insurance to cover the planned work on his property was a most reasonable request.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The judge imposed a two-month sentence for the threatening behaviour and three months for the trespass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Shane Collins-Daly solicitor said the accused had been in custody since August 9 \u2013 his first time ever in custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Today\u2019s sentences were backdated to that date. The terms will run concurrently with another sentence imposed on the same man last week on theft and public order charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sergeant Gear\u00f3id Davis said that on June 24 2022 the accused asked for permission to go on to a man\u2019s property to facilitate the cutting of trees at a neighbouring property on Coach Hill, Rochestown, Cork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The householder asked if he had insurance and after a brief verbal exchange, Jerry O\u2019Sullivan said he would box his face off him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge Dorgan said that if the defendant appealed today\u2019s sentence a condition of bail pending appeal would require him to stay out of the Rochestown area where the offences occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A householder who asked to see a copy of the insurance to cut down trees from a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-23333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-court","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}