2023-02-17
Suspended sentence for chaining man to abandoned car over drug debt too lenient, court finds
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Mark Kearney (44) of Cedarhurst, Newtown Cross, The Ward, Co Meath, was sentenced to three-years, fully suspended, at Meath Circuit Criminal Court in April 2022 for the false imprisonment of a man at Cedarhurst on November 10, 2018. The State successfully appealed the sentence on grounds of undue leniency and today Kearney was sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment.