Death threat and non-fatal strangulation charges were yesterday brought against a man accused of choking and holding a knife to a young woman\u2019s neck and threatening her, saying: \u201cI will kill you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sergeant John Dineen confirmed two new charges had been brought against Kevin Buckley of 5C, Shanakiel, Blarney Rd, Cork, at Cork District Court.<\/p>\n
He said the DPP had directed trial by indictment on the charges, and on two older charges brought against him arising out of the same alleged incident.<\/p>\n
Solicitor Aoife Buttimer said there was no application for bail in the case, and Judge Mary Dorgan remanded the defendant in custody for one week until January 16.<\/p>\n
Garda Barry O\u2019Shea outlined details of the allegations in an objection to bail on the earlier charges before the court.<\/p>\n
He said garda\u00ed were called to the scene of an incident in which it is alleged that Buckley had choked the young woman a number of times, stating: \u201cI will kill you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The parties are known to each other.<\/p>\n
\u201cKevin Buckley proceeded to grab a knife and hold it to her neck, threatening again to kill her. There were a number of marks visible on her neck. She stated that he held a knife to her throat. There are also red marks which she alleged were from choking.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe also had bruising to her left arm. Kevin Buckley was highly irate, and became verbally aggressive with garda\u00ed. Kevin Buckley began to threaten garda\u00ed at the scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving received a report from the injured party, garda\u00ed arrested Kevin Buckley and detained him. Kevin Buckley resisted arrest and attempted to spit at garda\u00ed a number of times.<\/p>\n
\u201cKevin Buckley was later interviewed in Togher Garda Station, where he denied the allegations. He stated he only pointed the knife\u2026 He admitted in interview that he threatened to kill himself,\u201d Garda Barry O\u2019Shea said in the course of an objection to bail.<\/p>\n
The initial charges against the 26-year-old were of assault causing harm, production of a knife, and wilfully resisting arrest. Added to that were charges of threatening to kill the young woman and non-fatal strangulation or suffocation.<\/p>\n
Sgt Dineen said the DPP directions were for trial by indictment or taking a signed plea of guilty for sentencing at the circuit court on all charges except the summary count of obstructing garda\u00ed during the alleged incident on Saturday, October 4, 2025, at Carrigrohane apartments, Riverside Farm, Cork.<\/p>\n
Ms Buttimer asked for a precis of the evidence and memo of his interview with garda\u00ed so that a signed plea of guilty could be considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Death threat and non-fatal strangulation charges were yesterday brought against a man accused of choking and holding a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-238481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-court","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238481","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=238481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}