Jonathan O’Driscoll’s barrister, Siobhan Lankford SC, said that Judge O’Donnabhain’s headline sentence of 15 years was too high and had been “fixed at the…
Jonathan O’Driscoll’s barrister, Siobhan Lankford SC, said that Judge O’Donnabhain’s headline sentence of 15 years was too high and had been “fixed at the…
Jonathan O’Driscoll’s barrister, Siobhan Lankford SC, said that Judge O’Donnabhain’s headline sentence of 15 years was too high and had been “fixed at the…
The partner of a 73-year-old man whose head was stomped on four times during a sickening and unprovoked 14-minute beating, has told the Sunday World: No sentence could ever be long enough for what was done to him.
In an exclusive interview, given after Jonathan O Driscoll from Macroom, Co Cork was jailed for 13 years for the horror attack on Christy O Callaghan, the pensioner s partner Ann Holland told us: People who d do that, I d line them up and shoot them. There is no excuse for what he did to him.
A heartbroken Ann also told how champion greyhound trainer Christy spent a year in hospital before being moved to a nursing home, where he is now confined to a wheelchair as a direct result of the horrific and unprovoked beating dished out to him by O Driscoll (31).
A 31 year old Macroom man has been jailed for 13 years for an unprovoked assault where he kicked and stamped on the head of a 75 year old man who spent almost a year in hospital and has now been forced to go into a nursing home as he can no longer look after himself.
Jonathan O Driscoll, with an address at Coolcower House, Macroom but originally from Dan Corkery Place in the town, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to Christy O Callaghan, then aged 73, at Sleaveen East, Macroom on March 21st 2019.
This week at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, Det Garda Alan O Sullivan told how Mr O Callaghan had gone to Kinsale for a meal with his partner before he dropped her back to Blarney before heading home to Macroom when the assault happened.