Jailed for attack on ‘easy target’

A couple, both drug addicts, were jailed yesterday for a total of nine years for attacking an elderly Limerick man who was out walking as part of his exercise regime before undergoing heart surgery.

Rebecca McNamara, aged 22, of Castlerock, Castleconnell, and James Price, aged 30 of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty at Limerick Circuit Court to robbing the man.

Price, who had previous convictions for robbery, got five years. McNamara was jailed for four.