Horgan appeal to be heard next week

An appeal brought by convicted killer and rapist Ian Horgan against both his conviction and eight years prison sentence he received for the robbery of a post office will be heard by the Court of Criminal Appeal next week.

Horgan (aged 24), The Hermitage, Macroom, Co Cork, was found guilty by a jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court in November 2007 of robbing Clondrohid Post Office near Macroom and stealing a car from outside the premises on September 6, 2005. Horgan had denied the charges.