LEROY DUMBRELL — the younger brother of Warren and Jeffrey Dumbrell, who last month were granted a rehearing of their murder trial — is to ask a High Court judge to release him from solitary confinement in Castlerea Prison.

The Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) has increased by two years the prison sentence imposed on a 21-year-old man for assaulting another man after finding that the original sentence was unduly lenient.

A convicted criminal whose assault with "a high level of gratuitous violence" on a man walking his dog may leave the victim blind for life has been remanded in custody pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.