A jail term for a man convicted of battering two young women in Northern Ireland is to be reviewed. The Director of Public Prosecutions has asked the Attorney General to consider the three-year sentence, which has been denounced by the victims as inadequate.
Stephen Patrick Cahoon (27), from Co Derry, was sentenced for 15 attacks on Ms Lynne McGall and his former girlfriend, Ms Samantha Brown, at Antrim Crown Court on Wednesday.
Ms McGall, who suffered facial injuries after being assaulted by Cahoon, and Ms Brown, who is also the mother of his baby daughter, said they were considering leaving Northern Ireland for fear he would attack them again.
Earlier the DUP leader, the Rev Ian Paisley, said he was handing a dossier about the case to the Lord Chancellor.
The court heard that trauma-induced amnesia prevented Ms McGall (18) remembering anything of the assault in September 1997.
A nurse who treated Ms McGall after she was discovered in a field outside Ballymena saw chewing gum matted into her hair.
When checked against the RUC's DNA profiles, it matched a specimen taken from Cahoon when he was convicted for an earlier assault.
Police said it was the first time anyone in Northern Ireland had been convicted on evidence gleaned from the hi-tech database.