Motorist punched pensioner who called him a donkey

A motorist who was called a donkey by another driver reacted by punching him in a shopping centre car park after a row about parking.

Pensioner Dermot Twomey was the injured party in the case. Sahbi Khorchani, aged 43, of Anglesea St Villas, Cork, denied the assault but was convicted after a trial at Cork District Court and ordered to do community service instead of going to jail.

Judge Olann Kelleher said of Khorchani: “He cannot take the law into his own hands whatever the provocation was.”