Jail over attack on pregnant woman

A pregnant woman was attacked by three youths and knocked to the ground as she walked home from work in Cork and yesterday one of the teenage attackers was jailed for two years.

Judge Gerard O’Brien imposed a three-year sentence on Shane Purcell, aged 19, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court and suspended the last year of that sentence.

Purcell, of 7 Seminary Court, Blackpool, admitted assault causing harm to the pregnant woman and, on a separate occasion, assaulting a man with a crutch.