A couple, both drug addicts, were jailed yesterday for a total of nine years for attacking an elderly Limerick man who was out walking as part of his exercise regime before undergoing heart surgery.

A Limerick man in his 60s out walking as part of his exercise regime before heart surgery was knocked to the ground by a woman who went through his pockets before making off with his wallet containing €200, the court heard.

Once it was lawless gangs that ruled Balllinacurra Weston with their guns before the law caught up with them. But the troubled Limerick estate recently resumed its Wild West ways when a boy mounted on horse back drove cattle through its streets.

An undertaker escaped a criminal conviction yesterday after pleading guilty to illegally exhuming the body of a 95-year-old man from a cemetery.

AFTER abducting a woman in her car, a heroin addict terrorised his victim as he forced her to drive through Limerick, telling her he was wanted for murder and rape and was taking her to Moyross where he had boys waiting for her.