'Sadistic' attacker forced curtain pole into mother's lover, appeal court hears

The three-year jail term handed down to a man who forced a curtain pole into the anus of his mother's lover in a “vile, sadistic, vicious, cruel and barbaric” attack was unduly lenient, the Court of Appeal was told today. Nathan Doherty (24), from Legan, Co Longford, attacked Derek Murphy with the b