Joseph Cullen sentenced to nine years for serious assault

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Joseph Cullen had his sentence for causing serious harm reduced to nine years by the Court of Appeal in a judgment delivered on 20 January 2015. The assault happened in Finglas, Dublin, on 2 March 2008, leaving Kevin Byrne with injuries that ultimately required amputation of his right foot. Cullen had been convicted by a unanimous Circuit Criminal Court jury in 2010 and sentenced to 12 years. The Court of Appeal upheld the conviction, but found the sentence excessive and substituted nine years, backdated to when he went into custody. The appeal was allowed in part.