DPP appeals leniency of sentence for Cork student who hit man 250 times in 20-minute attack

The victim suffered multiple fractures of the right eye socket, fractures of nasal bones and was left with double vision and what was described as an ongoing deformity

Judge Jonathan Dunphy imposed on 22-year-old Darragh McLoughlin of 23 Richmond Hill, Cork, a sentence of six-and-a-half years imprisonment with the last two-and-a-half years suspended. File picture

The four-year sentence handed down to a student who punched, struck, kicked and stamped on another man 250 times in a 20-minute attack in the centre of Cork City was appealed on Monday by the DPP for undue leniency.

Judge Jonathan Dunphy imposed on 22-year-old Darragh McLoughlin of 23 Richmond Hill, Cork, a sentence of six-and-a-half years imprisonment with the last two-and-a-half years suspended. The young man is serving that in the low security prison at Shelton Abbey.