A 40-year-old man who kicked and stamped a fellow homeless man to such an extent that he was "almost unrecognisable" to family members who identified his body in the morgue has been jailed for life.
Christopher O’Sullivan, who is originally from Co Kerry, had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Timothy 'Timmy' Hourihane on October 13, 2019 at a "tented village" in Mardyke Walk in Cork city.
A Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork heard that Timmy Hourihane suffered severe facial trauma, brain swelling, broken facial bones and battering of teeth in the attack. Mr O’Sullivan carried out the assault with an accomplice who has already been jailed for 11 years in relation to the assault.
