2026-01-27
Judge says she might not have a job but for the "scourge" of drugs
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: She set a headline sentence of eight years in prison before she accepted in mitigation the very early guilty pleas entered by Hayter which saved "the unforeseen pitfalls of a criminal prosecution". Judge Ní Chúlacháin further acknowledged that Hayter will be separated from his family during his time in Irish prison before she imposed a sentence of four years.