2022-04-08
Sentence for threatening to kill Castlerea gardai is reduced on appeal
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: However, when Judge Comerford sentenced Gavigan to seven years and six months, with the final 15 months suspended, for making threats against garda, he ordered that this term would begin on completion of the previous sentences – meaning the accused would serve a total of nine years and three months for the offences. Gavigan's lawyers later appealed the sentence imposed on the grounds it was too severe and that the judge had imposed consecutive sentences to take account of the threats made at the garda station – although these threats had not been included in the indictment.