A former court clerk fined for threatening to kill a man he thought was having an affair with his wife has lost an appeal against his conviction.
Father-of-four Ciaran Waldron (59), of Riverview, Buncrana, Co Donegal, had found his now ex-wife sitting in a car by the seaside in Buncrana with another man on August 7th, 2006.
He had pleaded not guilty at Letterkenny Circuit Criminal Court to reckless endangerment by driving his vehicle deliberately at Christine O’Kane and Anthony McColgan and threatening to kill Mr McColgan in Buncrana on that date.
Waldron was acquitted of reckless endangerment but was unanimously found guilty by a jury of making a threat to kill Mr McColgan and was fined €1,000 by Judge John O’Hagan on July 12th, 2011.
Dismissing his appeal against conviction, Mr Justice George Birmingham said that Ms O’Kane was the estranged wife of Waldron and was at the time of the offence “in a form of relationship with Anthony McColgan”.