Mark Doyle jailed for six years for assaulting wife and stepsons

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Mark Doyle was jailed for six years for assaulting his wife and stepsons at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 15 March 2024.

He admitted five counts of assault causing harm to his wife and two counts of assault causing harm to her sons, for offences between September 2007 and August 2019. Judge Martin Nolan described a pattern of violence and said some offending took place in front of children.

The sentencing report said Doyle’s sentence was backdated to 14 March, when he went into custody. He had pleaded guilty on the day his trial was due to begin in October 2023.