A man who attacked an 86-year-old woman before putting her into a wheelie bin has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.
Alex Bailey, of Claragh, Ramelton, Co. Donegal, assaulted the woman on his way home from a night out in Dublin last September.
As a result of his intoxication, his barrister told the judge his client had “induced psychosis” and believed she was a “dangerous paedophile.”
Speaking outside court afterwards, the woman’s son, Jack McGowan, said his mother hasn’t been the same since the attack:
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