The sentence imposed on a young homeless man for stabbing a transvestite in the neck was not unduly lenient, the Court of Criminal Appeal held yesterday.

A then homeless man who slashed the throat of a Filipino transvestite four days after he had sex with him has been sentenced to five years in prison by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A then homeless man who had sex with a Filipino transvestite but then slashed his throat after discovering he was a man has had his sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.