Kerry brothers jailed for ‘degrading and brutal’ assault on uncle

Two brothers have each been sentenced to nine-and-a-half years imprisonment, with four years suspended, for “a brutal, vicious, and degrading” attack on their uncle which left him “at death’s door” but which had no apparent motive.

The victim, Gerald Fitzgerald of Mitchels Road, Tralee, Co Kerry, was found with his jeans pulled down and blood spurting from his head.

A tennis racket had been forced into his rectum, it later emerged, and there had been damage to his liver and bladder.