2019-03-04
Robber who claimed sentence "sought to make example" of him loses appeal
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment with the final three years suspended by Judge Thomas Teehan on December 15, 2017, which was upheld by the Court of Appeal today. Counsel for O'Dwyer, William Bulman BL, submitted that the sentencing judge imposed a sentence that sought to make an example of his client due to what the judge called 'the growing number of violent crimes occurring in Carrick-on-Suir'.