Counsel claims stabbing of taxi driver is 'worst-case' scenario as DPP seeks to increase man's sentence

A man who stabbed a taxi driver and left him to die on the side of a rural road in Co. Louth must wait to hear whether his prison sentence will be increased on foot of an appeal by prosecutors.

Joseph Hillen (aged 25), with an address at Glendasha Road, Forkhill, Co Armagh, had admitted killing Martin Mulligan (aged 53) in a rural area near Dundalk, Co. Louth, in the early hours of September 28, 2015, but denied it was murder.