'No excuse' for teenager who was using threatening words 

A TEENAGER who used threatening words to someone else, telling them “you’re dead”, was before Carlow District Court last week. Jake Gorman, 12 Kyleshall, Raheendoran pleaded guilty to a charge of using threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour at Accommodation Road, Carlow on 13 November 2023.

Sergeant Hud Kelly told the court that Mr Gorman told the person, who wasn’t named in court, that they were “dead” and “I know where you live”.

"No excuse"

Barrister Eamonn O’Moore told the court that 18-year-old Mr Gorman apologised to the complainant and that, though there was “no excuse for his behaviour or for the words that he used”, there was a back story to the situation, which he couldn’t go into in open court. He continued that there had been a dispute between the two families involved and that they were no longer in contact with each other.

Experience hugely affected him 

Mr O’Moore continued that Mr Gorman had been a complainant in a criminal trial last year and that the experience had hugely affected him. He continued that his client had “a vision for his life” and that he intended to study music in college.

Judge Geraldine Carthy heard that Mr Gorman was willing to pay €100 into the court poor box in lieu of a conviction, but Judge Carthy ordered him to pay €300 instead. She then adjourned the case until 18 September, to give the defendant a chance to pay the money, after which she will give him the benefit of the Probation Act.