2022-02-07
Serial conman who duped victims out of €150k has jail sentence increased
Stage: Appeal
Outcome: Michael McGauley (49) was jailed for three years after pleading guilty at Monaghan Circuit Criminal Court to five counts of deception and theft between February 2016 and October 2018, with Judge John Alymer ordering the sentences to run concurrently. Today, at the Court of the Appeal, Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy, presiding, agreed with the DPP and said that Judge Alymer had erred by not imposing consecutive sentences on McGauley.