Fuming Cork woman ‘held carer by throat’

A woman who was “fuming” because her elderly mother was taken by taxi rather than ambulance from a nursing home for a hospital visit caught the care worker by the throat, it was claimed in court yesterday.

Linda Murphy, aged 54, of Ferndale, 51 Friars Walk, Cork, denied assaulting Ann McConnon at Cork University Hospital on June 3, 2014.

Judge Olann Kelleher said he found the facts proved against Murphy. “I will take a certain view on it in four months if there are no further difficulties,” he said. Murphy had no previous convictions.