2022-07-12
On-bail syringe robber has suspended sentence quashed by appeal court
Stage: Appeal
Outcome: The Director of Public Prosecutions appealed Darren Rice's suspended sentence on grounds of undue leniency. Mr Justice McCarthy quashed the three-year suspended sentence and imposed a sentence of four years' imprisonment with the final year suspended for two years, which is to run consecutively to the three-year sentence Rice is currently serving.