2015-07-27
Remorseless abuser loses appeals against conviction and sentence
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Not guilty
Outcome: Kelly was unanimously found guilty on all counts by a jury and was given a net sentence of six years imprisonment by Judge Rory McCabe on February 18, 2014. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment – the maximum available sentence for the offence – on each of the first 14 counts to run concurrently and two years on the final two counts each to run consecutively.