The daughter of an 88-year-old man, who died after he was attacked as he slept in a hospital bed by a patient he did not know, has called on a judge to impose the maximum sentence permitted in law and to show no pity or leniency to the man who attacked her father.
Retired farmer Matthew Healy, from Berrings in Co Cork, died after he was punched more than 20 times by another patient in the ward where both were being treated at the Mercy University Hospital in Cork on 22 January 2023.
The Central Criminal Court was told that 33-year old Dylan Magee, of Churchfield Green, in Cork, was admitted to the same ward as Mr Healy, suffering hallucinations, having taken…