2019-01-22
Drunk driver fails in appeal against 5-year jail term for causing death
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Moran was sentenced to six years imprisonment with the final year suspended by Judge Rory McCabe, which was upheld by the Court of Appeal today. It was submitted on Moran's behalf that he was "profoundly remorseful" and a letter he had written to the Wynne family, expressing his guilt and shame, was read out by his counsel, Diarmuid Connolly BL, at the sentence hearing.