A defence lawyer said the threat to kill offence was “very much out of character”
A Belfast man who called at the home of an Antrim man and told him to hand over £5,000 or he would be shot was jailed today .
The female resident answered a knock on the front door, and when the two callers asked for her husband, she summoned him. Mr Chambers said that after the male occupant went to the front door, Sterling “demanded” £5,000 from him and was told if he couldn’t pay within a couple of days he “would be shot”.
Sterling and his co-accused - who was not before the court today but who is due to be sentenced at a later date - then left the scene. The couple contacted the PSNI and footage of the interaction, which was caught on CCTV, was handed over.
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