Judge hits out at 'degrading' waterboarding of victim as she jails ex-SF councillor Jonathan Dowdall

A former Sinn Féin councillor who physically and mentally tortured a man he believed was trying to defraud him has been jailed for 12 years by the Special Criminal Court.

Judge hits out at 'degrading' waterboarding of victim as she jails ex-SF councillor Jonathan Dowdall

A former Sinn Féin councillor who physically and mentally tortured a man he believed was trying to defraud him has been jailed for 12 years by the Special Criminal Court.

The court found that Jonathan Dowdall's victim, Anthony Hurley, was subjected to a “gratuitous, humiliating and degrading” ordeal during which he was tied to a chair and waterboarded. Dowdall claimed he as a member of the IRA and Mr Hurley was told he would be "chopped up" and "fed to the dogs".

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