2018-05-11
"Die you bastard, die": youth left man with "fate worse then death" after savage attack
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Meagher was sentenced to eight years imprisonment with the final two suspended by Judge Thomas Teehan at Clonmel Circuit Criminal Court on May 10, 2016 He lost an appeal against his sentence today, with the Court of Appeal holding that this case was "almost a text book example" of a serious assault of the most serious kind. Mr Justice Mahon, who sat with Mr Justice George Birmingham and Mr Justice John Hedigan, said a sentence of eight years with two suspended was within the judge's discretion (and within the range envisaged by the Court of Criminal Appeal in DPP – v – Fitzgibbon), and suggested no error in principle.