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A CLARE family was “terrorised, intimidated and harassed” as a result of a threat made over an alleged drug debt, a court has heard. At Ennis district court, Judge Mary Larkin imposed a nine-month prison sentence with the final month suspended, on Kilrush man Patrick Hall (36). Hall, of no fixed abode and who had been living in a caravan in the Beech Park area of Kilrush, was before the court having previously pleaded guilty to making a threat to a man to burn down his house. The court heard that Hall approached the man at his place of work in Kilrush on July 22 and told him that if he didn’t ring a number by a certain time, his house would be burned down. Hall was arrested and brought before the district court in July. A bail hearing at the time time heard the threat issued by Hall related to an alleged drug debt owed by the injured party’s …
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