2024-11-27
Serial offender who left businessman to die during car theft gets five-year term for earlier crime spree
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: In February, McCormick was handed a three-year and two month prison sentence with the final 12 months suspended for his role in a series of offences on January 23, 2022 during which a man died. She imposed a global sentence of six years and six months before she suspended the final 15 months on strict conditions including that McCormick keep the peace and be of good behaviour for two years and engage with the Probation Service for 12 months upon his release from prison.