Passing judgement on the law

The Court of Criminal Appeal has found as too harsh the 15-year sentence handed down to a man who assaulted a boy in an unprovoked attack. What is an appropriate sentence, asks Dan Buckley

“I BEAT the head off him. I danced over his head.”

The chilling words of a Limerick man who left a schoolboy with permanent brain damage after beating him unconscious in an unprovoked attack.