Petrol attack on pregnant woman — new charges

Two new charges were brought yesterday in the case against a man accused of attempting to set fire to a pregnant woman working at a pharmacy in Cork.

Alan Foley, aged 33, of no fixed address, was previously before Cork District Court on a charge of assault causing harm to the woman at the Doc Morris pharmacy on Grand Parade, Cork, shortly before lunchtime on Jan 10. Yesterday at the same court, Garda Deirdre Crowley charged him with two fresh counts.

Foley was charged with intentionally or recklessly creating a risk of death or serious injury during the same incident. The particulars in the charge state that he allegedly threw accelerant from a used milk carton at a person and then threw lighting tissue at her.