2023-06-20
Dowdall 'duped' and put in 'firing line' for Regency murder, lawyers argue
Stage: Appeal
Outcome: Mr Justice Hunt sentenced Jonathan Dowdall – who previously served as an elected Sinn Fein councillor in the north inner city ward in May 2014 and resigned less than one year later – to four years imprisonment, which he said was a total discount of 50 percent from the headline sentence. Patrick Dowdall was jailed for two years for his facilitation role in the Regency murder by the Special Criminal Court.