2025-10-24
Man avoids jail for sending sinister cards after murder
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: This was reduced to an 18-month sentence, suspended in full for two years, on foot of mitigation including Rowland's guilty plea, admissions and low risk of reoffending. 'He is apologetic and shameful; he has done a mental health first aid course and he has led a trouble-free existence since this offence,' said the judge. The judge made it a further condition that if Rowland gets into trouble either in Ireland or the UK, he would be liable to be called up to serve all or part of his sentence.