Cork man who wielded blood-filled syringe at student and demanded money avoids jail

A homeless young man held up a blood-filled syringe to threaten an Indian student doing a master’s degree in Cork as she walked from one college building to another.

This happened two years ago, and now at Cork Circuit Criminal Court Judge Helen Boyle has imposed a three-and-a-half-year suspended sentence on 21-year-old Ken O’Sullivan, who is originally from Rylane in Co Cork but was living homeless in Cork City at the time. His only address was at St Vincent’s hostel, Anglesea Terrace, Cork.

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