State wins appeal against suspension of sentence for serious assault

A man who received a suspended sentence for repeatedly stabbing a Polish national, leaving him with life-threatening injuries, now faces a jail term of two-and-a-half years following a successful appeal by the State.

The Court of Criminal Appeal today found that the three-year suspended sentence imposed on James Boland (aged 27) for a “savage and brutal” attack on Gregorz Mylnarski was unduly lenient and substituted it with one of five years with two-and-a-half years suspended.