2022-06-30
Man who disembowelled friend while 'out of his head' fails in appeal
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: However, Judge Pauline Codd at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court said there was no substance to his claims and sentenced him to 10 years' imprisonment with 18 months suspended. He later appealed the length of the sentence on the grounds that the judge erred when she identified a headline term of 12-and-a-half years for the offences. "The starting point for the sentence had been wrong," James Dwyer SC, for Mubango, told the Court of Appeal at a hearing on Tuesday, June 28.