2024-03-13
Convicted rapist and killer has jail term increased for 'blood bath' hammer attack
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; In June of last year, Ian Horgan was jailed for eight and a half years for the hammer attack on a then 29-year-old man, who required brain surgery for his injuries, and his 66-year-old mother at their home on the afternoon of March 26, 2022. Horgan, formerly of The Hermitage, Macroom, Co Cork, pleaded guilty to the offences at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on January 30, 2023, and was sentenced by Judge Helen Boyle to nine years with the final six months suspended for the attack on Mr Baker and to a concurrent three years with the final six suspended for the attack on his mother, Mary O'Callaghan.