Josie Ray, her granddaughter said, “was well loved in Nenagh town by everyone”, where she was known for her “fashion, her style and her feistiness”. The 89-year-old great-grandmother fought back against Hasan Ali Gori who beat and strangled her in her own bed.
But she never had a chance. It is unbearable to think of that slight, vulnerable, elderly lady – who suffered two broken neck bones and 44 bruises to her head, neck, face, shoulders, chest, arms and legs as she was being murdered – trying to fight off the man who had inveigled his way into her home.