2017-04-25
"Growing public alarm" over increase in knife crime, appeal court judge notes
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He was sentenced to four years imprisonment with the final year suspended by Judge Michael O'Shea on January 28, 2016. His barrister, Fionnuala O'Sullivan BL, submitted that the sentencing judge erred in holding that there was an element of planning to the robbery in the absence of any evidence and that the sentence imposed was unduly severe.