‘Hammer slipped out of my tracksuit bottoms and hit man on the head,’ attacker told gardaí

Alan Stafford, of Swords, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, where he was sentenced to two years in prison for his part in a hammer attack. Photo: Collins Courts

Robin Schiller

Two raiders who forced their way into a man’s home and beat him with a hammer while his toddler son slept upstairs have been jailed.

The victim, Stefan Hoey, was kicked, punched and hit over the head with the hammer before being knocked unconscious.

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