'He is an animal': Convicted killer Ian Horgan jailed for hammer attack that left man with serious head injuries

Ian Horgan also attacked victim's mother and only left the house when she told him her son was dead, court heard

Ian Horgan has been jailed for eight and a half years. File picture: Andy Gibson

Convicted killer and rapist Ian Horgan was jailed for eight and a half years for a hammer attack on a 29-year-old man and for assaulting the man’s 66-year-old mother after which he sent a mocking video of the bloody aftermath with “Lovely Day” playing in the background.

Detective Superintendent Michael Comyns described how Horgan, of no fixed address and formerly of The Hermitage, Macroom, Co Cork, left his home in Macroom that Saturday afternoon, got the bus to Cork City, walked to a derelict shed near the crime scene, changed his shoes and clothes and walked to the house where he carried out the attack.