Guilty plea to making death threat to Penny Dinners volunteer

A man who threatened to kill a woman serving lunches at Cork Penny Dinners will be sentenced on November 25.

Flavio Andrade, aged 33, of Shamrock Place, College Road, Cork, appeared before Cork Circuit Criminal Court on a signed plea of guilty to making the death threat.

His barrister, Elaine Audley, applied for an extension of free legal aid for a medical report on the accused. Judge Helen Boyle acceded to that application and adjourned the case for sentencing.

Sergeant Gearóid Davis previously outlined the background to the incident which occurred at around lunchtime on May 1, 2022, as Garda David O’Sullivan responded to a call to Penny Dinners on Little Hanover Street, Cork.

Garda O’Sullivan met with a woman who had been serving food at the well-known service.

“She was visibly shaken. She alleged that while serving Flavio Andrade he became extremely aggressive pointing his finger in her direction stating that he was going to kill her,” Sgt Davis said.

The sergeant said that the wording of the threat was: “I’ll kill you, I can kill you anytime. I’m ex-military so I can kill you anytime.”

It is alleged that he later added: “I’ll track you down. I will find where you live. And if I go to Portugal for 15 years and come back I will still track you down. You will be no more.”