2025-03-12
On-bail offender extorted over €22k from classmate who tried to buy small amount of cannabis
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He was on this suspended sentence when he began to threaten this man. He set a headline sentence of seven and a half years, before reducing this to five and a half years taking into account mitigating features in the case including Byrne's pleas of guilty.