Increased sentence for 'alarming and shocking' assault in Cork

The 23-year-old student had delivered 250 blows as he subjected a man to an 'alarming and shocking' 20-minute assault 

During the attack on Paul St in Cork, the assailant used the victim’s own phone to record a 77-second section of the assault. 

A 23-year-old student who subjected a man to an “alarming and shocking” 20-minute assault in which he delivered 250 blows will now serve a further two years in prison after the State objected to the undue leniency of his original four-year sentence.

Mr Justice Michael McGrath said that Darragh McLoughlin, aged 23, had shown “no mercy” to the victim and his culpability was “extremely high”, as the Court of Appeal increased the sentence to eight years and two months in prison, with the final two years and two months suspended.