The Court of Criminal Appeal is due to hear further submissions today in an appeal by the DPP against what it says is the unduly lenient sentence imposed on a businessman for a violent sexual assault.

Businessman Anthony Lyons, who received a six-month custodial sentence for a violent sexual assault, will "never be forgotten" and will "always be notorious", the Court of Criminal Appeal has heard.

Profits at the aviation firm established by disgraced businessman and aviation tycoon, Anthony Lyons, soared last year by over €3.55m.

Convicted sex attacker Anthony Lyons had to leave his home to live and work in England after his release from prison because of media attention on him and his family, it was claimed before the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday.

The family of convicted sex attacker Anthony Lyons n were followed and abused when he was jailed for six months, a court has been told.

High-profile aviation broker Anthony Lyons will go back to prison after the Court of Criminal Appeal found the six-month custodial sentence imposed on him for a violent sexual assault was “unduly lenient”.

A wealthy businessman jailed for six months for a violent sex attack is to go back behind bars.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has heard that "too much weight" was given to mitigating factors in the sentencing of sex attacker Anthony Lyons.

The State's appeal against the six-month sentence handed down to sex attacker Anthony Lyons will be heard today.

The State’s appeal on grounds of undue leniency against the six-month sentence handed down to sex attacker Anthony Lyons will be heard in November.

Mandatory sentencing should be abolished for all offences except murder, legal experts have advised the Government.

As the latest victim of a high-profile sex abuse case prepares to meet the Taoiseach, the political establishment can no longer avoid discussing the need to reform the system for sentencing.

Sex attacker Anthony Lyons will walk out of jail today with an appeal against the leniency of his six-month sentence still pending.

Businessman Anthony Lyons, who was convicted earlier in the year of sexual assault, may be released from prison before the hearing on the leniency of the sentence imposed has been heard.

Convicted sex attacker Anthony Lyons is likely to walk free from jail before a court appeal against the perceived leniency of his six-month jail term.

A hearing date on the leniency of the sentence imposed on Anthony Lyons, a businessman convicted of sexual assault, has been applied for at the Court of Criminal Appeal by the DPP.

The DPP has applied for an early hearing date for a challenge to the leniency of the sentence handed down to a Dublin businessman for sexual assault.

The aunt of a woman sexually assaulted by wealthy businessman Anthony Lyons has revealed her family’s anguish at the fact that he will be home for Christmas.

The judiciary do not operate in a vacuum. Any judge whose habitual conduct shocks the public will have a detrimental effect on justice, writes Dan Buckley

Every society has a set of mores around sex, every society has a code of behaviour and if it is breached there are usually pretty severe consequences.

The outrageous inconsistency of judicial sentencing in sexual offence cases, particularly in a country where sex abuse is endemic, has again been underlined by the latest in a growing litany of shocking decisions by judges.

Discrepancies in the lengths of sentences judges hand down have been decried by many, and lead to a lack of faith in the justice system, writes Michael Clifford

Rape crisis groups have welcomed the decision by the DPP to appeal the leniency of the sentence handed down to businessman Anthony Lyons for sexual assault which could see him free after four-and-a-half months.

The DPP is to appeal the leniency of the 6 month prison sentence handed down to a Dublin businessman for a random sex attack on a woman as she walked home at night.

The mother of the woman sexually assaulted by Anthony Lyons said her daughter told the court a month ago that she did not want compensation if it would “in any way reduce the sentence”.

Fresh controversy surrounds the case of sex offender Anthony Lyons after it emerged his six-year sentence can only be reactivated if he reoffends within two years of his release, rather than during the full six-year period.

THE controversial case in which a Dublin businessman was ordered to pay a victim of sexual assault a sum of €75,000, and had five-and-a-half years of a six-year sentence suspended, suggests that here is one law for the rich, and another for the poor, in this country.

A high-profile aviation broker who claimed his cholesterol medication made him sexually assault a young woman has been sentenced to six years with the final five and half years suspended.

Rape crisis groups have hit out at the sentence in the Anthony Lyons case, describing it as very lenient.

A successful Dublin businessman,who rugby tackled a woman to the ground and sexually assaulted her as she walked home at night, has today been jailed for six months.

A successful Dublin businessman who rugby tackled a woman to the ground and sexually assaulted her as she walked home at night, has been jailed for six months.

A businessman who claimed his cholesterol medication made him sexually assault a woman is to be sentenced for the attack today.

A high-profile aviation broker has been convicted of sexual assault after a jury rejected his claim that his cholesterol medication made him do it.

The wife of a businessman accused of sexually assaulting a woman as she walked home has told his trial that he is a kind and gentle man.

A Dublin businessman will stand trial next year for an alleged sexual assault on a woman in the city.