Man receives 15 year sentence for horrific attack that left Offaly man 'basically incinerated' Reporter: '); '); A judge has jailed for 15 years a man he said had “murderous intent” during a brutal assault in which an Offaly man was stabbed 16 times before being set alight with the judge saying the victim had been “basically incinerated” in the attack. Shaun Groome (32) told gardai he had not been happy with the victim's response to the death of a close friend of his and said he hoped the injured party died. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard the garda view was the victim, Ciarán Murphy, was a low-level drug dealer and Groome was acting on misinformation that Mr Murphy was a garda informant.