Court reports mentioning Mark O'Shea

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2018-10-19

Jail cut for "vulnerable" man paid €20 to put pipe bomb under prison officer's car

Stage: Appeal

Plea: Guilty

Outcome: Giving judgement in the Court of Appeal today, Ms Justice Máire Whelan said O'Shea's lawyers had established a sufficient evidential foundation for contending that the sentencing judge ought to have imposed a more lenient sentence. Ms Justice Whelan, who sat with President of the Court of Appeal Mr Justice George Birmingham and Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy, re-sentenced O'Shea to five years imprisonment with the final 12 months suspended.

2017-11-23

Drug addict was paid €20 to put pipe bomb under prison officer's car

Stage: Sentence

Plea: Guilty

Outcome: Passing sentence today, Judge Martin Nolan said putting a pipe bomb under a car was a very serious matter.