Man pleads guilty to gruesome attack on Cork widow

An Offaly man, who beat a Cork widow and mother of six so violently it left blood splatters throughout his flat has had his sentence adjourned again by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

The victim, Ms Bernadette Barnes (aged 48), died 10 days later in hospital from a heart attack but it is accepted this was not related to the injuries she received in the assault.