Man jailed for 14 years after attack on Irishman

A COURT in Sydney, Australia, has sentenced a 21-year-old man to a minimum of 14 years in jail for a savage assault on Corkman David Keohane on August 9, 2008.

Mr Keohane was in a coma for seven months and in hospital for more than a year after being attacked in the seaside suburb of Coogee by Thomas Isaako and an accomplice, who is still at large.

A district court in Sydney heard they beat Mr Keohane, then 29, so severely that almost every bone in his face was fractured, and doctors did not expect him to survive.