A Wicklow man who subjected his former partner to a terrifying 19-hour ordeal after breaking into her home has been jailed for seven years.
A sitting of Wicklow Circuit Criminal Court also heard Alan McEvoy subjected the woman to a prolonged campaign of harassment by following, pestering and texting her on numerous occasions over a three-month period as well as impersonating a garda in calls to her employer.
The court heard that during the assault McEvoy threatened his victim with a syringe which he would fill with acid in the knowledge that she had a phobia about needles, while also claiming the IRA were after her and her mother in Poland would be killed.
