Elderly woman stabbed in hand

A MAN was arrested yesterday after a vicious mugging last week when an elderly woman was stabbed during a visit to a Limerick cemetery.

The 85-year-old, a retired doctor, sustained a knife wound to her hand as she tried to hold onto her purse.

A man was arrested and questioned at Roxboro Road station. He was later released and a file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.