2025-11-12
Three soldiers get suspended sentences over 'brutal' attack
Stage: Sentence
Outcome: Defence counsel urged the judge to consider all sentencing options available to her, including a non-custodial sentence and community service. Judge Ní Chúlacháin previously asked prosecution counsel to look into whether restorative justice would be suitable as part of the sentence being imposed. "This is one of the most profoundly depressing lunch times I've ever had in this building," she said, referring to the material she had reviewed during the break. "For these young men to overcome such barriers and throw it all away in a moment of madness…What they did is just completely appalling.