Two men have been jailed for nine years for causing “life changing injuries” to a 93 year old woman during a robbery where she was knocked to the ground and dragged along the road, as she tried to hang on to her handbag after collecting her pension.
Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard that the woman was left in “excruciating pain” following what Judge Helen Boyle described as a “scarcely comprehensible act of thuggery in broad daylight,” at St Luke’s in the city on November 9th, 2022.
The woman needed 24 hour care in the aftermath of the robbery. She was a “prisoner in her own home” having sustained multiple fractures to her pelvis in the harrowing incident which occurred six months ago today.
