Case of alleged assault on carer dismissed

A woman successfully appealed a case yesterday where it was alleged that she caught a care worker by the throat because she “went ballistic” over her elderly mother being taken by taxi rather than ambulance from a nursing home to hospital.

Linda Murphy, aged 55, of Ferndale, 51 Friars Walk, Cork, denied the charge of assaulting Ann McConnon at Cork University Hospital (CUH) on June 3, 2014.

When the case was heard at Cork District Court last year, Judge Olann Kelleher found the facts proved against Ms Murphy, but gave her a dismissal under the Probation of Offenders Act.