A man who bit the entire bottom lip off another man during a fight was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday at Galway Circuit Criminal Court.
Joseph Boreham (40), from England, with an address at St Brendan's Terrace, Loughrea, Co Galway, bit the lower lip off Derek Greene, a man in his 30s, early on March 18th last year at Barrack Street, Loughrea.
Garda Lucy Lowry said when she arrived on the scene Mr Greene's entire lower lip and the flesh beneath it was completely torn away and was hanging by a little piece of skin.
She said the accused had drunk 25 pints during St Patrick's Day, and got involved in an argument with Mr Greene outside a pub.
Hearing Boreham had previous convictions in England for two indecent assaults and for assault causing actual bodily harm, Judge Raymond Groarke imposed the three-year sentence.