Killer posted pieces of fight victim’s ear to him

A CONVICTED killer who had bitten off part of a man’s ear during an earlier dispute and posted it through the victim’s letterbox in an envelope some days later has been jailed for four years.

Martin O’Brien, aged 22, of St John’s Park, Waterford, pleaded guilty to the assault of Jonathan Lynch, causing him harm, at a flat in the city in December 2009.

Noel Whelan, prosecuting, told Judge Rory MacCabe at Waterford Circuit Criminal Court how Mr Lynch arrived home after spending four or five days in hospital to find an envelope in his apartment with “several pieces of his ear in it”.