A Dublin man who left a Lithuanian man in a vegetative state following an unprovoked attack has had his sentence increased from seven to ten years by the Court of Criminal Appeal today.
Kevin Dunne (19), of Ballyfermot Drive, Dublin, pleaded guilty last October to causing serious harm to Mr Vytautas Sukys (50) at Royal Canal Bank, Phibsboro, on September 25th, 2004, and was sentenced to seven years imprisonment.
Dunne is already serving a two-year sentence for an assault on a French man.
The court ruled today that the increased ten-year sentence run consecutively to the two-year sentence.
As Mr Sukys lay on the ground during the attack, the court was told that Dunne literally danced on his head.
Mr Sukys now lives in a nursing home in Swords where his wife, Neringa, and medical staff care for him. The public has donated more than €100,000 to a fund set up by the gardaí following the attack.
Mr Justice Fennelly said that it was absolutely inexplicable how somebody could commit such violence on another person.
He said that the court was satisfied that the sentencing judge had committed an error and had been unduly lenient in the sentence of seven years.