A Midleton man with a conviction for manslaughter terrified two young students at a secondary school when he robbed them in a locker room and pushed them around violently.<\/p>\n
At Cork Circuit Criminal Court, Garda Barry Kilroy testified about the trespass and two robberies committed by Cornelius Horgan at Midleton College at 5.20pm on February 4.<\/p>\n
The 43-year-old, who was of no fixed address in the Midleton area, entered a locker room being used by younger teenage students that afternoon.<\/p>\n
Garda Kilroy said: \u201cHe approached two students and took their phones and wallets, and he was very physical with them and put them in fear.<\/p>\n
Slapped\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe pushed the first student with force. He caught another student by his throat and slapped him against the locker and took his mobile phone. He frisked one of them and shouted at him, even when this child was physically upset. He took his Revolut card, his Leap card, and left the locker room.<\/p>\n
\u201cVice-principal Kevin Stanley followed the accused and contacted garda\u00ed, who arrested him in Midleton. The two students are too afraid to come to court.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judge Sinead Behan sentenced Horgan to four years in prison.<\/p>\n
Horgan\u2019s previous convictions include one for manslaughter, in April 2010, when he struck the victim across the head with a bottle, causing his death three days later.<\/p>\n
Chaotic<\/p>\n
Marjorie Farrelly, senior counsel, said: \u201cIt was a fairly chaotic scene in the school, and the defendant was not making much sense, saying repeatedly: \u2018Where are the drugs?\u2019 He brought his dog in with him. He said he was following his dog. The whole thing was utterly chaotic.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was very co-operative at interview and he felt bad for the children. He acknowledged the children were scared and he apologised for scaring them. He was in the grip of polysubstance misuse. He was after taking tablets that day. He apologises to the school and to the children.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr Horgan\u2019s own parents suffered from addictions. He ran away from home at the age of 14. He had a largely homeless lifestyle since.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judge Behan noted from a psychiatric report on the accused that he has \u201can antisocial personality disorder, including a reckless disregard for himself and others\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Outrage<\/p>\n
Judge Behan said: \u201cI have no doubt that the two students found it an absolutely terrifying ordeal. And the parents\u2019 outrage and helplessness is very evident in victim-impact reports.\u201d<\/p>\n
The judge noted that the defendant put his hands on the vice-principal, Mr Stanley, and was acting in an unpredictable manner. The school has taken new security measures.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to acknowledge the courage of Kevin Stanley, the vice-principal, who did the best he could in the protection of the children,\u201d Judge Behan said. \u201cI think there is great credit due to that gentleman.\u201d<\/p>\n
A sentence of five years was imposed on the defendant, with the last year suspended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Midleton man with a conviction for manslaughter terrified two young students at a secondary school when he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,2013,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-207967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-cork-court","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115638554153635296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}