2025-07-01
Shop owner had 'operative and lethal' firearm for self-defence, court hears
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: The judge said he had come to the conclusion it would be unjust to jail Harte and he set a sentence of five years, which he suspended in full on a number of conditions. Harte's supporters cried in court when the sentence was handed down and Harte said, "thank you judge" a number of times.