Patrick McLaughlin was brought before Letterkenny District Court in Co Donegal charged with a range of offences
A man who threatened to slash his elderly mother's face and then threatened to kill his brother and put him in a box has been jailed for a year.Judge Ciaran Liddy was told that all the incidents happened at the McLaughlin family home at Meenacung in Gaoth Dobhair.On June 11th, 2002, he came to his mother's home and threatened to slice his mother's face.
On that occasion he threatened to knife his brother James. On June 16th, 2023, McLaughlin again called to his family home under the influence of alcohol and threatened to kill both his mother and his brother. Solicitor for the accused, Mr Patsy Gallagher, said his client suffered from alcohol addiction and was also taking both prescription and non-prescription medication.
Mr Gallagher said his client had been living in a half-way house. Judge Liddy requested some time to read two medical reports handed into court on McLaughlin by Mr Gallagher. The Judge said “Mrs McLaughlin is here in court and it must be very difficult to see her son here and she is expressing her support for him and I sympathise with her.He sentenced the accused to 12 months in prison for assaulting his brother James at the family home on June 11th last year and also jailed him for another 12 months for making threats to kill or cause serious harm on the same date but suspended that sentence for two years. All other charges were taken into account.
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