2023-07-28
'No excuse for lawlessness': 15 years for Strokestown eviction vigilantes
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Photo: Collins) Three men who took part in a vigilante "mob" attack on security personnel guarding a repossessed farmhouse in Roscommon, which was carried out with "calculated cruelty" designed to create "fear and terror", have each been sentenced to 15 years in prison. She imposed a sentence of 15 years on each of the three accused for the false imprisonment of Mr Gordon.