2024-07-04
Ex-Terenure College rugby coach has sentence for abusing 22 pupils reduced to 2.5 years
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; After factoring in McClean's advanced age and state of health, Mr Justice Edwards said that the ultimate global sentence should be between eight and a half and ten and a half years, which was 18 months lower than the total ultimate sentence of 12 years imposed on the appellant. "We therefore find that the sentencing judge erred in principle in that respect," said Mr Justice Edwards, adding that the judge's decision not to adopt a semi-structured and staged approach to sentencing meant that the reasons behind his decisions lacked transparency and his nominated global sentence did not stand up t Quashing the sentence imposed in February 2023, Mr Justice Edwards said that the Court of Appeal would resentence McClean to a global sentence of ten and a half in prison for all 45 offences.