2016-07-25
Man hit with statutory "double whammy" has drugs sentence cut on appeal
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin at Cork Circuit Criminal Court sentenced him to seven years imprisonment on November 29, 2011. Judge Barry Hickson at Wexford Circuit Criminal Court imposed a mandatory minimum term of 10 years imprisonment on October 29, 2013 and also made it consecutive to the Cork offence.