Seán Ducque sentenced for threatening to kill barrister

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Seán Ducque was sentenced to eight years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 17 May 2018, for threatening to kill his barrister.

The sentence followed his guilty pleas to assaulting and falsely imprisoning the barrister in a Dublin District Court cell.

He also admitted assaulting three prison officers causing them harm and attempting to escape from lawful custody.

The court imposed concurrent sentences totalling eight years, consecutive to a five-year term he was already serving.

Ducque was serving a life sentence after being convicted of murder the previous July, according to the report.