2020-02-21
Gratutiously violent offender gets nine-year sentence for string of attacks
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Handing down a sentence of nine years and three months with the final 15 months suspended today, Judge Elma Sheahan noted it was "not an inconsiderable sentence". "But it would be an injustice to any of the individual injured parties to further reduce the sentence, which I believe reflects the totality of the offending," she said. She said the sentence "reflects what can only be described as a sequence of egregious individual acts," noting that many of Crowley's offences involved "gratuitous violence".