In the same incident, Mark Salmon (33) told the woman that he would drive over her son with his car, and if he was still not dead, he would "put a bullet in his head".

Mark Salmon, of Kilbarron Avenue, Kilmore, West Dublin, was originally charged with a total of 16 offences, including directing a criminal organisation, making threats to kill or cause serious injury to several individuals and making demands with menaces for more than €250,000.

Mark Salmon is charged with directing the activities of a criminal organisation