Hepatitis C sufferer sentenced to two years for biting garda

A woman with Hepatitis C who bit a garda after breaching a barring order from her mother's home has been given a two-year sentence by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

Sandra Pepper (aged 38) of Kilclare Drive, Tallaght pleaded guilty to assaulting Garda Padraig Mullarkey at her mother's home on December 2, 2006.