Woman’s house set alight days after nursing home move

THE home of an elderly Limerick woman was ransacked and set alight shortly after she moved to live in a nursing home.

The woman, aged 87, had arranged for her family to take over the dormer bungalow at Quinn’s Cottages in Prospect.

But a gang of youths broke into the house last Thursday and, after vandalising the property, set the building alight.