'My life has changed immeasurably': Cork men jailed for violent robbery of 93-year-old pensioner

Woman said she 'never in my life experienced such fear' when she was attacked after she collected her pension, knocked to the ground and dragged along by two attackers who robbed her, court heard

32-year-old Damien Long of Ardbhaile, Mayfield and 35-year-old Damian Fitzgerald of Inniscarra Road, Fair Hill, Cork, have been jailed for nine years.

The violent robbery of a 93-year-old woman who was followed for seven minutes by her two attackers was “a scarcely comprehensible act of thuggery in broad daylight in Cork City.” 

Judge Helen Boyle said the courageous victim was entitled to walk from her home without being set upon by two men who targeted her and robbed her.