2016-02-19
"Menace to society" with 166 previous convictions gets jail term reduced on appeal
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by Jude Rory McCabe on March 12, 2015. McDonagh had the final 18 months of his sentence suspended today by the Court of Appeal "in order to give him a chance to deliver" on promises to reform himself.