2015-06-08
Increased sentence for "exceptionally good person" jailed over drugs and firearms offences
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He also admitted to possession of a firearm, an offence which was taken into account by the sentencing judge Judge Martin Nolan when he sentenced Kavanagh to three-and-a-half years imprisonment on October 15 2014. The Director of Public Prosecutions successfully appealed his sentence on grounds that it was "unduly lenient" and the Court of Appeal imposed a new sentence on him of five years imprisonment with the final year suspended on each count to run concurrently.