Attack not racially motivated, say victim’s family

The family of a 75-year-old Indian-born man, brutally beaten as he waited for a bus in a Cork suburb, do not believe the incident was racially motivated.

However, a witness to the weekend attack has claimed the perpetrator called the victim a refugee.

The victim, a retired mechanical engineer who is an Irish citizen, had been standing at a bus stop when a man in his 20s came up behind him and repeatedly punched him in the face.