An off-duty garda had to jump out of the way in a car park by his home when a motorist twice drove at him deliberately.

A publican who believed the storeroom of his premises was about to be robbed by three youths chased after them, but they turned on him and gave him what was described as a merciless beating.

A builder who lost his job after 25 years resorted to growing cannabis at his home because he could see no other way out of his financial problems.

A DESPERATE woman called a taxi driver and told him to “get me out of here” hours before her battered body was discovered in a pool of blood in her home.