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Garda who inflicted 'horror after horror' on wife and stepsons is jailed for six years

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court

(Pictured: Mark Doyle (L) and victim Meav McLoughlin-Doyle (R). Photo: Collins)

By Jessica Magee and Sonya McLean

A former garda and soldier used his position to “shake off suspicion” as he inflicted “horror after horror” on his wife and stepsons in a family relationship defined by violence and coercion, has been jailed for six years.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court was told that in