2017-06-30
Mayo resident robbed pizzeria with chainsaw-wielding accomplice
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: At the original sentence hearing last December defence barrister, Sorcha Whelan BL, said Dempsey had a cocaine drug debt at the time of the offence. She said she would put Dempsey on a probation bond for one year during which time he would undergo probation supervision under strict conditions.; She had adjourned the case to give Dempsey one last chance to engage with probation services in Mayo. "The alternative, and it's not an alternative I relish, is to put you back in prison in Dublin in the company of all the people who brought you to the point you're at," she said.