Appeal for help over pensioner’s murder
Christopher “Gussie” Hornibrook, 73, died from a combination of blunt force trauma to the chest and neck — restraint asphyxia — in association with severe heart disease, Cork Coroner’s Court was told.
The pensioner was found with his hands and legs tied in a downstairs room of his terraced house at Templeacre Avenue, Gurranebraher, on Cork’s northside, on November 6 last.