2018-11-27
"Hit and run" thief's dangerous driving led to infant's fractured skull
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He was sentenced at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to six years imprisonment with the final year suspended by Judge Gerard O'Brien on October 24, 2017. However, given the mitigating factors that were present, combined with Murphy's particularly early guilty plea, Ms Justice Kennedy said the overall sentence would ultimately have been the same.; His solicitor had contacted the gardaí early to indicate Murphy's intention to plead guilty and he himself wrote a letter from Cork Prison a week after he was remanded in custody.