90-year-old badly assaulted and robbed at home

EASTER MONDAY was a normal day for John Mitchell — the spritely 90-year-old walked to morning mass, as he does every day.

After mass he popped into the supermarket and headed back to his flat in Clareville Court, a quiet sheltered housing complex, in Glasnevin, north Dublin.

Sometime after 1pm, as Mr Mitchell turned the key on the back door of his ground-floor flat, two youths jumped on him and pushed him inside. They tied him to a chair and proceeded to savagely beat him around the head and face.