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Five men apologise to 'rat' branding victim

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Five men have apologised for their roles in an assault in which a man was beaten with a metal bar, threatened with being raped using a stick and branded with the word "rat" seven times on his face and torso.

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Five men apologise to 'rat' branding victim

Five men have apologised for their roles in an assault in which a man was beaten with a metal bar, threatened with being raped using a stick and branded with the word "rat" seven times on his face and torso.

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‘I thought I was about to be murdered,’ says man who was branded ‘rat’ with hot iron tool and waterboarded in attack by five Dublin criminals

Five men with over 120 previous convictions carried out a prolonged attack on a man by branding him with a hot metal implement, waterboarding him and running over him with an electric bike.

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Irish Independent broke the news in Ireland on Tuesday, February 3, 2026.
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