2021-03-04
Storm Emma looter must stay 'on the straight and narrow'
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: President of the Court of Appeal Mr Justice George Birmingham said Berney has the suspended sentence "hanging over his head." He added: "Having got himself on the straight and narrow he must stay there and if he lets matters slip he will be in a very serious situation." At Berney's sentence hearing his barrister Eoin Lawlor BL said Berney was, like many people, reminded of his childhood by the heavy snowfall. "But unlike others he was high on cocaine at the time," counsel told Judge Cormac Quinn. He pleaded guilty to both offences and Judge Quinn imposed a two-year sentence for the 2014 burglary.