After an appeal by Ireland’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), an Irish soldier was given a two-year prison sentence for randomly attacking a lady.
Last June, Cathal Crotty, a 22-year-old resident of Ardnacrusha in County Clare, was given a suspended sentence for the offense.
In 2022, he attacked Natasha O’Brien, then 25 years old, in Limerick after she begged him to stop yelling homophobic epithets.
Crotty’s punishment of complete suspension was deemed “unduly lenient” by the appeal’s judge, Ms. Justice Isobel Kennedy.
Speaking outside the court, Ms. O’Brien stated: “I felt heard and seen for the first time in an Irish court today.
“I felt acknowledged, and it’s just in total contrast to how I felt leaving that court house last June.”
