Five men jailed for roles in 'cruel and sadistic' torture of woman over false accusation

The sentencing judge said the offending 'demonstrates the evils associated with the drugs trade' and its wider criminal associations
Five men jailed for roles in 'cruel and sadistic' torture of woman over false accusation

During a three-hour period in September last year, Natalie Ennis (then aged 37) was beaten to the head and body with metal pole, burned with a makeshift blow torch and a heated hammer head, cut with a knife, kicked and punched, had her hair cut off and was threatened with rape, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard. File picture

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Five men have been jailed for their roles in the “sadistic” and “cruel” torture and false imprisonment of a woman in a Dublin flat over a false accusation about missing drugs.

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