2024-03-12
Serial child abuser Shanahan fails in bid to overturn 11-year jail sentence
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Not guilty
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; Shanahan, who had pleaded not guilty to all charges, was sentenced in August 2022 to 13 years' imprisonment with the final two years suspended. The judge said there was "very little" by way of mitigation in the case but that the sentencing judge had ordered a two-year suspended period and allowed the sentence to overlap with the other jail term Shanahan is already serving.