2022-01-24
Sentence cut for man who put innocent family 'under siege' over drug debt
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; Mr Fitzgerald said Hughes "had mental difficulties, from which he suffered from for some time", and that the sentence imposed by Judge Nolan had been in error when compared with lighter sentences handed down in the past for similar offences. Hughes' brother Cian (31) was convicted of the same offence and sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment.