Jail for attack after ‘unduly lenient’ sentence appealed

A security guard of a ghost estate who attacked a woman unprovoked in her home has been sentenced to two years in prison following a finding by the Court of Appeal that his wholly suspended three-year sentence was “unduly lenient”.

Alan Kilmartin, aged 35, of Davitt Terrace, Cloughleigh, Ennis, Co Clare, pleaded guilty at Ennis Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm to a woman at Acha Bhaile, Lahinch Rd, Ennis, on March 2, 2012.

He was given a wholly suspended three-year prison sentence, suspended for five years on conditions, by Judge Carroll Moran on November 25, 2013.