Italian tourists visit ruined by mugging

An Italian couple who were victims of a violent mugging in Cork City yesterday expressed the hope that their attacker understood the suffering he had caused.

“We hope he understands that he committed a personal assault and has caused physical and psychological suffering,” tourists Claudio Schenardi, 38, and Elisa Malaspina, 27, said in their victim impact report. “He has also partially ruined our good memories of Cork and caused damage also to the image of his country.”

Kenneth Casey, aged 26, of 35 Courtown Drive, Knocknaheeny, Cork was in Cork Circuit Criminal Court for sentencing.