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[quote:3fd10]The mother of a County Antrim woman stabbed to death by her boyfriend has said she will appeal the ten-year minimum tariff he was given for her murder.
Conor Gerard Doyle, 23, of Limestone Road in Belfast, admitted stabbing Angela Snoddy more than 60 times at her home in Glenville Road, Whiteabbey, after a row in October 2002.

The chef was told at the city's Crown Court on Friday he must serve at least ten years of his life sentence.

With time already served in custody, this means a parole board could review his case after eight years.

The minimum term he must serve before being considered for release is believed to be one of the lowest ever handed down for murder.


Angela's mother, Helen Snoddy, said on Tuesday that she would do everything she could to appeal the sentence.

"I'm going to organise rallies, I'm going to go to women's groups, so my daughter's story will be heard," she said.

"If next week a boyfriend murders his girlfriend by stabbing her twice, I don't want my daughter's case referred to.

"How can a judge give him any more than 10 years when my daughter was almost beheaded and stabbed 77 times?

"What degree of murder warrants a man getting a life sentence of 20 years in this country? Does he have to murder a whole village first?"

Dominica Magowan of the Nexus Institute, which works with sexual abuse victims, said the sentence was "an insult".

"I want to know if there was some deal done by the DPP in relation to this guy pleading guilty, because I cannot understand how this came about," she said.

At the time of the murder, the couple's baby son was just seven-weeks-old, while a daughter Ms Snoddy had by a previous relationship was three-years-old.

During his sentencing remarks, Mr Justice Weir told Doyle that the murder was a "frenzied attack upon a woman who, on your own case, had merely struck you some mild blows".

The judge said he stabbed her at least 66 times, as well as inflicting blunt trauma injuries and a broken nose that "could have been sustained as a result of forceful punches, kicking, stamping or the head being forced against a hard surface such as the ground".

"Clearly this was a sustained and merciless attack involving a great deal of brutal force," he added.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3809847.stm

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