Judge sentenced the men to jail terms of between eight-and-a-half and 14 years

Left to right: Sean Conroy (21), Mark McMahon (55), Mark Keogh (33), Kian Walshe (22), Braxton Rice (20). All five admitted to falsely imprisoning and assaulting the woman at Henrietta House in Bolton Street, Dublin 7, on September 26, 2024.

Left to right: Sean Conroy (21), Mark McMahon (55), Mark Keogh (33), Kian Walshe (22), Braxton Rice (20). All five admitted to falsely imprisoning and assaulting the woman at Henrietta House in Bolton Street, Dublin 7, on September 26, 2024.

A gang who tortured a woman in a Dublin flat for three hours by burning her with a makeshift blow torch and threatening to rape her were working for a major Tallaght crime figure.

Five men were jailed for a combined 55 and a half years for the “evil and truly barbaric” attack which was carried out after Natalie Ennis was wrongly blamed for €90,000 worth of cocaine going missing.