2015-10-29
Well known Limerick restaurateur jailed for importing cannabis has appeal dismissed
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Not guilty
Finding: Found guilty
Outcome: Found guilty; He was found guilty by a jury following a three week trial and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by Mr Justice Caroll Moran on May 21 2014. The "centrepiece" of Scanlon's appeal against conviction, as submitted by his barrister Michael O'Higgins SC, was that his arrest was allegedly tainted by a period of illegal detention immediately before his arrest.