2018-07-31
Jail for man arrested during confrontation with armed gardai
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Referring to O'Keeffe's "past failures", the judge said it was in the defendant's interest for the court to encourage him to turn away from crime and not impose a 12 year sentence. Presiding judge Mr Justice Hunt, sitting with Judge Patricia Ryan and Judge Michael Walsh, addressed O'Keeffe, saying: "For a young man you have a shocking record and it is high time you got your act together as otherwise you are facing a lifetime of this." At a sentence hearing on July 24, Detective Inspector David Gallagher from the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, summarised the facts of the case.