A woman has been jailed for ten months for a ‘sitting duck” attack on an elderly lady in a wheelchair who was slapped in the face as she was on her way to lunch in Cork city earlier this year.
Chantelle Duffy of Parkview Terrace, Wellington Road in Cork, appeared before Cork District Court by video link today having pleaded guilty to a charge of assault.
Judge Mary Dorgan showed Ms Duffy (26) a picture of the bruised face of the woman she had “clattered.”
Ms Duffy told the judge that she was genuinely sorry for her behaviour in the incident in Cork city centre on April 4th last.
She admitted that what she had done to the old lady was “terrible.”
Ms Duffy, who has 33 previous convictions including one for assault, accepted that it was a serious and completely unprovoked matter.
Her solicitor, Frank Buttimer, said his client was suffering from psychosis when she assaulted the woman on Winthrop Street in the city.
“She (Duffy) has a limited recollection of the event. It…
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