He threatened to kill mother a month after jail release

A career criminal threatened to kill his partner just a month after he was released from jail, a court heard. Gary Burke, 45, was found by police in his ex-partner Shelly Rooney’s flat threatening her with a pint of lager in his hand on 2 December 2021. Burke was pinned to the wall shouting: ‘I’ve done nothing wrong’. Police discovered Burke had just the previous month breached his restraining order twice on the 9th and 21st of November, just days…