2016-10-21
Abuser spared extra jail time despite undue leniency finding
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He was sentenced at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to 12 months imprisonment on each count to run concurrently by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin on February 2, 2016. Mr Justice Birmingham, who sat with President of the Court of Appeal Mr Justice Seán Ryan, and Mr Justice Garrett Sheehan, said the court would substitute for the sentence imposed in the Circuit Court, a sentence of three years imprisonment with the final two suspended.