2016-02-18
Appeal court dismisses arsonist's challenge against 10-year sentence
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Patrick Maughan (29), who set the fire outside an occupied flat in the complex while a family with two young children were inside, had appealed against the "severity" of his sentence. Maughan, of Boot Road, Clondalkin, Dublin pleaded guilty last May at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to arson at Block B, Thornfield Square, Clondalkin on July 7th, 2013 and was sentenced to ten years in prison, with three years suspended, by Judge Patricia Ryan.