Man Who Threatened To Kill Flatmates In Cork City Jailed
A 40 year old man who declared he was delighted at the number killed in the Bataclan in Paris has been jailed for five years after he pleaded guilty to threatening to kill one of his flatmates in Cork city.
Smael Heirouche, who has been diagnosed as schizophrenic but had stopped taking his medication at the time of the incident at a flat on James Street in Cork on November 16th last, also told gardai that he would love to behead Jews if he saw them on the street.
He had been living in Cork for just over two months when he made threats to kill his French flatmates
Judge Sean O Donnabhain said that he believed Heirouche posed a real risk as long as he was refusing to take his medication and he sentenced him to 5 years in jail and order that he receive appropriate psychiatric treatment while in custody.
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