2025-06-27
Woman was serving suspended sentence when she punched and slashed two men
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Whelan was previously jailed for seven and a half years for causing serious harm after she assaulted a recovering road crash victim, striking him in the face with a bottle and punching and kicking him several times before dragging him outside the house party they were attending in Limerick on May 6, 2015. Whelan had originally been sentenced to twelve years with the final three suspended by Judge Thomas O'Donnell on April 4, 2017 but this was quashed and replaced on appeal with a sentence of twelve years with four and a half years suspended.