Cork man who attacked cleaner cycling to work and robbed her bicycle jailed

Stephen Mahon, 29, from Greenwood Estate, Togher, Cork, attacked victim and robbed her bicycle on Sarsfield Road, Bishopstown, Cork, on May 20

The victim of the robbery was working as a cleaner and was on her way to work at Wilton Shopping Centre at 3.45am that morning, the court heard. File picture: Denis Minihane

A 50-year-old woman cycling to her cleaning job in the early hours of the morning – and playing her part in the frontline during the Covid pandemic – was attacked and knocked from her bicycle.

Now the assailant, Stephen Mahon, has been jailed for two and a half years.