2022-06-28
'Goodbye Cian': sister tells abuser brother that he'll no longer 'take space in her head'
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He handed down a four-and-a-half year sentence and suspended the final 18 months on a number of conditions, including that Farrelly have no contact of any kind with his sister. Speaking outside court, Ms Farrelly said she was pleased with the sentence that was handed down, saying that the headline sentence the judge mentioned was "enough" for her. "I'm a lot more content now than I was," she told reporters. "No sentence would have been long enough at all….but just hearing the headline sentence was enough for me. "I always said it had to be three to five (years).