{"id":404240,"date":"2026-04-18T00:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404240\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T00:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:12:10","slug":"patient-who-beat-elderly-man-to-death-in-hospital-bed-jailed-for-12-years-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404240\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient who beat elderly man to death in hospital bed jailed for 12 years &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijAFBVV95cUxQcTlwUUxQbzE4Rld5eHVuWWlHV0NSS2laWUFNVFhJc1lzaExHcVRvZ1IyNExCZlQtNVV4Rnh1ZmJFUjBCZV8tbEx0YmJaVWVmcS0yUTBvajgzbUpWb0txMkI0RTJCbnJjVm5nX2VVYjVCNVNkMThzOEhuSVdEMTk1RXNRTE5rNksza2Y2Yg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Patient who beat elderly man to death in hospital bed jailed for 12 years<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMibEFVX3lxTE9tN0lPYWxYZlB1TjI3ZHBDR0xVSldtc2ItQlhHNkt1MFZWZW5heC1pMnUyX0tZWV9DMHo3UGgwQ1daY3JmLXBadUw2dFN2bHg5WWprMl9BTkhnQUZ3TzRwbU1Ndk5EUE1TelFuYQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man who killed retired farmer in hospital ward jailed for 12 years<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi2AFBVV95cUxOY0NlOTd1YUc5RFM3YktQQ0ZoUUQtRTh1TkN5RS1kQ1NlUTY4dlBYV1JqSzRoc25WMDZXY3BvRDJpNDdmOHJSdmM4b0Rkc205Y01vMm9PTW9pOHhzRHRhSjcxU0ZEUkhXUVZKQVdpM3BxMXVzR1o0TzdrLVdNR0c5eVFydHJ6eXBzM2NEVXNuUVotcU9EVDJSV0hvY2lTUmRyaC1veVVsTDJHXzQxRl9FVmdpTzRKTFVYWDZfR3BoZ0UwVE90cXc0YlJwSGNxQXo2cEJHaUtCZDg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man jailed for 12 years over frenzied attack on frail widower (88) in hospital bed<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitgFBVV95cUxNODVfbUxEQ3N0RU1peDNyVmFnWE9JSlBoWXJBUXVwenVEYk5XQWdDODBUMzFPUVc3clFibU1peGdLZTF1RXotNXRwZnBVcUpfZ29YX0hKT1NjTUJTQVdmWElEcjFSWTVINjlCdEk1YVFvSFU4UHUwSmpyT0pqbDVFTXE3bDF3X2NHaHJtZERGcVZ2N0pJRHhxX3ZLNjNmT1VSVU4xRVlmVlF0cS1jWmNwM1o4MDB6dw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Patient who punched man (88) to death in Cork hospital ward jailed<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiYEFVX3lxTE1OYmp2NTJlbFpUOTRTTWJoalJObkxtY2NLZWNTSzhtd3BaX1d2dC1ubXdaZmFfVTNmeUVMLVc2ZEhwb05lZmd5VkRscmtXdjJDMDA0c0g2WkZqQkQtWXVSbg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jail for Corkman who punched 88-year-old man to death in ward in Mercy Hospital<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;echo live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patient who beat elderly man to death in hospital bed jailed for 12 years&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalMan who killed retired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,61,60,83335,43],"class_list":["post-404240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mercy-university-hospital","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}