Burglar attacked injured man with yard brush during home raid

A 57-year-old man dozed off on his couch with his arm in a sling but woke to a masked raider striking him with force with a heavy yard brush.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said it must have been obvious to the raider that the householder had the injury as his arm was in a sling.

Thomas O’Neill, aged 46, of 3 Ringfort Avenue, Ballrothery, Fingal, Dublin, was jailed for six years yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. The judge imposed a term of eight years with the last two suspended.