Court raises 'unduly lenient' sentence for man who stabbed taxi driver and callously left him to die on country road

A man who stabbed a taxi driver and callously left him to die alone on a country road has been given an extra two years in prison after a finding that his original six-year jail term was too lenient.

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.