2025-05-16
Woman who snatched new-born from hospital 20 years ago jailed as suspended sentence for 'frenzied' knife attack found too lenient
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: She was sentenced by Judge Eugene O'Kelly to four-and-a-half years, suspended in its entirety, on October 10, 2024. In 2001, McGovern was jailed for five years after she admitted abducting a newborn baby from a maternity hospital in Cork.