2023-05-16
'Top of the pyramid' dealer caught red-handed at cocaine factory has sentence cut on appeal
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Tony McInerney was jailed for 12 years by Judge Brian O'Callaghan at Ennis Circuit Criminal Court in May 2021 after he was caught "red-handed" mixing cocaine when gardaí raided a property outside Ennis, Co Clare. At the Court of Appeal today, Mr Justice George Birmingham said the three-judge court would quash the original sentence and re-sentence McInerney to a total of 10 years' imprisonment with no portion of either sentence suspended.