2-year term for ‘vicious’ assault on garda

A garda was hospitalised following an assault where he was punched three or four times and headbutted in the face.

Peter Matthews, aged 24, originally from Ballincollig who was living at apartment 2, 27 Leitrim St, Cork, at the time, was sentenced yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court for assault causing harm to Garda Conor Manton.