2023-12-08
Axe-murderer has life-sentence backdated by appeal court
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Not guilty
Outcome: A person jailed for life can first apply for parole having spent 12 years in custody. Although Doran had gone into custody on May 6, 2021, Mr Justice Keane said that bearing in mind the dreadful circumstances of the case, in which a vulnerable, elderly man in sheltered accommodation had been murdered with no motive, the life sentence would only be backdated to January 17, 2023, when Doran entered his guilty plea.