2023-07-14
Dowdall's sentence over Regency attack 'very lenient', court finds as appeal flops
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Last October, Patrick Dowdall (65), who also pleaded guilty to facilitating the Hutch gang by making a hotel room available ahead of the murder, was sentenced to two years imprisonment. Mr O'Higgins argued that the Special Criminal Court had weighed the consequences of how Dowdall's life was going to "irredeemably" change on becoming State's witness "with a blindfold", that the sentencing court didn't hear the specifics and did not know what the future held for his client. "He could have made his plea, been sentenced, walked out and refused to give evidence," he said.