2022-07-21
State fails in appeal against 4.5-year sentence for two 'life changing' attacks
Stage: Appeal
Outcome: Bannerton (47) was jailed for six years with a further 18 months suspended by Judge Rory McCabe at Galway Circuit Criminal Court in January 2021. For the assault causing harm conviction on the elderly man, Bannerton, of Raheen Oughter, Kilchreest, Loughrea, Co Galway, was jailed for two years after a three-year headline sentence was identified.; Conall MacCarthy BL, for Bannerton, told the appeal court that the sentencing judge was "well-appraised in the nuances" of such cases and that the sentencing hearing took place over three separate days as the judge adjourned matters to consider reports regarding rehabilitation.