2023-01-19
Violent, high-risk rapist received excessive discount for being non-English speaker
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Not guilty
Finding: Found guilty
Outcome: Found guilty; He said the court would quash the original jail sentence of six-and-a-half years and substitute it with a sentence of ten years' imprisonment with the final year-and-a-half suspended. After a Court of Appeal hearing earlier this week, Ms Brennan successfully argued on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions that Pirvu's sentence had been unduly lenient.