Killer back behind bars after litany of violent offences including assaulting his own mother two weeks after release

Joseph Hillen has been sent back to prison.

Paul Neilan

A man who “brutally, viciously and inhumanely” killed a father of two, leaving him to die on a rural road, is back in jail after carrying out a series of violent offences in the North just two weeks after being released from prison.

Joseph Hillen (29) with previous addresses at Glendasha Road, Forkhill, Co Armagh, and Foughilletra Road, Jonesborough, Co Armagh, was convicted by a majority jury verdict in October 2018 of the manslaughter of father-of-two Martin Mulligan (53) near Dundalk, Co Louth, in September 2015.