Man who beat boy unconscious wins appeal against 15-year sentence

A Limerick man who left a schoolboy with permanent brain damage after beating him unconscious in an unprovoked attack has successfully appealed against the 15-year sentence imposed on him.

The man, who was a teenager in the care of the HSE at the time of the “unprovoked, sustained, and vicious” attack, was caught on camera inflicting 65 kicks and stamps to his 16-year-old victim’s head, along with two stamps to his chest and 26 punches.

There was evidence that the man told gardaí he was “stoned out of his head on vodka and tablets” at the time of the attack.