As Dessie O'Hare goes back to prison the Border Fox's 'psychotic message of hate and violence' is recalled

Journalist Diarmaid MacDermott covered the 1988 trial of Dessie O’Hare when he was jailed for 40years for the kidnap of dentist John O’Grady in 1987. Here he remembers the dramatic sentence hearing.

I was in court today when Dessie O’Hare, the so-called “Border Fox”, self-confessed mass murderer, would be extortionist, criminal and torturer,