2025-10-13
Banned 'joyrider' who drove at gardai has jail term overturned
Stage: Appeal
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; Judge Deirdre Browne said that Grimes has had a sentence and a driving ban imposed in the past for other matters but these didn't "seem to have had an impact on him". Judge Brown decided to increase the sentence from three months to six months in relation to both concurrent charges but suspended them both in their entirety for a period of one year.