The Oireachtas will hear calls for tougher sentencing of ‘one punch’ assaults, at a Justice Committee hearing later.
TDs and Senators will be addressed by Brian Hogan, who lost his sight and ended up in a nursing home at the age of 32 having been the victim of a single punch assault.
The meeting will also hear from the relatives of people who died after they were unexpectedly assaulted.
One witness, Sharon Lynn, will call for new sentencing structures after her brother Martin was killed outside their family home.
The man who assaulted him, Christopher O’Neill, was sentenced to six years in prison following the unprovoked assault and a guilty plea to manslaughter.
