Wicklow pensioner jailed for violent assault on his 97-year-old wife
Tom Harte (78) from Ashford, Co. Wicklow leaving Wicklow Circuit Court. Photo: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin
A Wicklow pensioner has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for a violent assault on his then 97-year-old wife at their family home last year with an object believed to be his walking stick.
A sitting of Wicklow Circuit Criminal Court heard that the accused, Tom Harte, had a short time earlier pushed his victim down a six-foot drop into a ditch while she was cutting briars in their garden.
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