2020-03-02
Six years for 'cloned' van racket is upheld
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He was sentenced to six years imprisonment by Judge John Aylmer on May 21, 2019, which was upheld by the Court of Appeal today. Upholding the severity of his six year prison sentence today, Mr Justice John Edwards said some 70 vehicles were detected in Ireland as having been cloned, although Reilly was only criminally liable in respect of 11 vehicles.