06/07/2010

Hammer Attack Mum 'Critical'

Gardaí said they are not looking for anyone else in connection with a serious assault in which a young mother was beaten with a hammer.

They said that a 39-year-old man was arrested after he walked into a Garda station, yesterday morning, and said that he had attacked her.

The victim was injured after being attacked in her home in Mulhuddart in Dublin and has since been transferred from Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown to Beaumont Hospital where her condition is described as critical but stable.

The woman sustained serious head injuries and it is believed she was attacked with a hammer while sleeping.

Her three-year-old son was in the house at the time of the attack.

(BMcC/KMcA)

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