2017-11-30
Chinese national has jail term cut over cannabis package
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He was sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to eight years imprisonment with the final two suspended by Judge Pauline Codd on October 5, 2016. He said the Court of Appeal agreed with the sentencing judge's analysis save only for the chosen headline sentence of 12 years which, the court held, should have been nine.