SALTHILL MAN GETS 9 YEARS FOR ATTACK ON 97 YEAR OLD WOMAN

Date Published: 07-Dec-2011

A Salthill native man has been sentenced to nine years for assaulting and threatening to kill a 97-year-old woman in her Dublin home last year

41 year old Paul McDonagh fled the scene by climbing into the back garden of a garda who had just gotten off duty.

He was arrested after also threatening the garda who was feeding his baby at the time.