A Limerick man – who carried out an unprovoked attack on a schoolboy leaving him with permanent brain damage – is challenging his 15 year jail sentence.
The accused from Dooradoyle was a teenager in HSE care when he punched, kicked and stamped on the 16 year old boy’s head as he waited for his mother at a service station in Corbally, Co Clare in July 2010.
CCTV footage of the almost five-minute, frenzied attack shows the accused inflicting 65 kicks and stamps to the schoolboy’s head, which continued long after the boy lay motionless on the ground.
His lawyers are now appealing the severity of the prison term and have argued the judge was wrong to find the accused man’s consumption of drink and drugs was irrelevant as a mitigating factor.
The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved its decision due to the difficult issues raised by the case.
