2022-04-01
Killer driver who made Snapchat videos fails in bid to overturn 9-year sentence
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Lennon, of Forest Park, Dromintee, Co Armagh, later appealed the severity of his jail sentence. At a previous hearing Patrick Gageby SC, for Lennon, told the court that there were "not very many cases in the law books concerning motor manslaughter". "There wasn't any real comparator we could lay before the court and in those circumstances we submit there has been an error [in sentencing]," Mr Gageby added. "This was not a crime of intention," he continued, adding that the headline sentence of 14 years identified by Judge Baxter had been "too high, even when you consider the egregious circumstances of the case, which resulted in the deaths of three human beings".