Patrick O'Brien sentence appeal: Long list of health problems 'no obstacle to jail'

An Ill and infirm Patrick O'Brien, who subjected his daughter Fiona Doyle to shocking torture over a number of years, cannot be treated as a person for whom a prison sentence would be impossible to tolerate, the Court of Appeal has stated.

Patrick O'Brien sentence appeal: Long list of health problems 'no obstacle to jail'

Patrick O'Brien, in an archive picture.

An Ill and infirm Patrick O'Brien, who subjected his daughter Fiona Doyle to shocking torture over a number of years, cannot be treated as a person for whom a prison sentence would be impossible to tolerate, the Court of Appeal has stated.

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