2024-02-15
Violent criminal who targeted vulnerable people with knife-attack robberies gets 8.5 years
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Passing sentence today on Bewley, Judge Orla Crowe said that both accused carried out two offences within three hours against vulnerable persons. She set a headline sentence for Bewley of four and a half years in prison for the robbery of the visually-impaired man and seven and a half years in prison for the aggravated burglary of the widower, which are to run consecutively.