2024-07-29 · Dublin
'V for Vendatta' attacker lay in wait for elderly neighbour before viciously beating him with shovel
James O'Neill, aged 57, was convicted of causing serious harm to Patrick Hansard, aged 78, after a pre‑meditated assault in a stairwell near Hansard's home on 17 August 2019. O'Neill, wearing a "V for Vendetta" mask, waited in the stairwell and struck Hansard with a shovel, inflicting a fractured cervical spine, skull fractures, lacerations, a…