Court dismisses biter appeal

A MAN who bit the entire bottom lip off another man during a fight and who was sentenced to three years in prison has had his appeal against the severity of that sentence dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

Last July, Galway Circuit Court heard that Joseph Boreham, aged 40, from England, with an address at St Brendan’s Terrace, Loughrea, Co Galway, bit the lower lip off Derek Greene, a man in his 30s, early on March 18 last year at Barrack Street, Loughrea.

Judge Raymond Groarke imposed the three-year sentence.