2015-12-14
Appeal on "highest sentence in the history of the State" adjourned after prison escort fails to arrive on time
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Not guilty
Outcome: The Court of Criminal Appeal was due to hear evidence today before a fresh sentencing of Perry Wharrie (56), who was given what his lawyers have described as the "highest sentence in the history of the State" for his role in the record €440 million drugs haul which went awry at Dunlough Bay on the Mizen Peninsula, West Cork on July 2 2007. He was unanimously found guilty by a Cork Circuit Criminal Court jury and sentenced to thirty years imprisonment by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin on July 23 2008.; Photo: Collins) The case of an Englishman who appealed a 30-year prison sentence for his role in the biggest drug seizure in the history of the State has been adjourned until next month after his escort from Portlaoise Prison failed to arrive at the court on time.