Man given four years for assault on widow

An Offaly man who beat a Cork widow so violently it left blood splatters throughout his flat has been jailed for four years by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

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