2019-04-10
"Strewn with skeletal remains": sentence for shocking animal cruelty upheld
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Kavanagh was sentenced to three years imprisonment and ordered to pay €35,000 towards the ISPCA's costs, which totalled €59,149, by Judge James McCourt on February 22 last. His wife, Jennifer Kavanagh, was given a wholly suspended 12 months sentence on the same occasion after she admitted 30 counts of allowing animal cruelty.