Woman whose iPhone contained hammer attack images applies to court for its return

The videos were played at the sentencing hearing of  Ian Horgan’s who was convicted of carrying out the attacks

Det. Garda Harrington said he seized the phone from Laura O’Callaghan when she was sitting at a table outside a pub in Cork City centre. File picture

A woman whose iPhone contained brutal images of the victim of a hammer attack to the head and a video of the attacker washing blood from his hands to the tune of “Lovely Day” applied in court to have the phone given back to her on Friday.

Detective Garda Padraig Harrington said the State was opposed to the phone being returned to her because of concerns that the disturbing images of the man who was seriously assaulted and his mother who was also attacked in the same incident would end up online causing further distress to the victims.