2022-07-12
On-bail syringe robber has suspended sentence quashed by appeal court
Stage: Appeal
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; Darren Rice was sentenced by Judge Helen Boyle to a fully suspended three-year sentence for the crimes at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on September 29, 2021. Mr Justice McCarthy quashed the three-year suspended sentence and imposed a sentence of four years' imprisonment with the final year suspended for two years, which is to run consecutively to the three-year sentence Rice is currently serving.