A man who murdered his ex-girlfriend’s baby son must serve an increased minimum of 16 years in prison, the Court of Appeal ruled today.
Senior judges held that the original 13-year tariff on Sharyar Ali’s life sentence for killing Hunter McGleenon in Keady, Co Armagh was unduly lenient.
Based on medical evidence, Lady Chief Justice Dame Siobhan Keegan declared that the eleven-month-old child had been subjected to “gratuitous violence”.
