Jail sentence increased for convicted killer and rapist for hammer attack on man and his mother

A convicted killer and rapist has had his jail sentence for a hammer attack on a young man and his mother increased from 8½ to more than 11 years after the Director of Public Prosecutions appealed that the original sentence was unduly lenient.

Defence counsel, Jim O’Mahony SC argued that if Horgan had sought to appeal the severity of the sentence following his guilty pleas, he would have advised him not to do so and he believed that the trial judge was not unduly lenient in her sentence but had structured it appropriately.What skills are needed in the current economic climate?

He noted how Horgan had brought a change of clothes with him and went to a derelict shed near Ms O’Callaghan’s house where he changed into a black hoodie and snood to disguise himself before forcing his way into Ms O’Callaghan’s home and attacking Mr Baker and grabbing him in a headlock. He said that the assault was offending of the most serious kind because of a number of factors including the degree of preparation and pre-planning involved and the fact he had forced his way into Ms O’Callaghan’s home before attacking Mr Baker with the hammer.

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