2014-11-20
Seven-year sentence for killing best friend not unduly lenient, court finds
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Rice (28) was sentenced to seven years imprisonment with the final two suspended by Ms Justice Margaret Heneghan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on July 9 2012. Mr Justice Brimingham said that while the court recognised a more severe sentence might well have been imposed on Rice, the Court of Appeal could not say his sentence fell outside the range of sentences available so as to constitute undue leniency.