2022-12-15
Motorist who caused 'life-altering injuries' in head-on collision has driving ban cut on appeal
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: At the sentence hearing, Detective Garda Patrick Sexton said Coen's Ford Focus went on to the wrong side of the road and into the path of a Toyota Corolla causing a head-on collision with a family on a shopping trip. At the Court of Appeal today, Coen's counsel Sinead Behan BL said the disqualification of 10 years was "unduly punitive" and that the five-year headline sentence fixed by the trial judge before mitigation was "excessive".