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Sentence for threatening to kill Castlerea gardai is reduced on appeal

2022-04-08 · Castlerea, Roscommon · Court of Appeal

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The Court of Appeal has reduced the sentence imposed on a man convicted of making threats to kill gardai at Castlerea, County Roscommon. Enda Gavigan, aged 37 of Doorty, was arrested on 10 October 2019 following criminal damage at a property. He pleaded guilty to criminal damage, production of an article capable of inflicting serious injury, and making threats against gardai. At Roscommon Circuit Court in June 2020, he received consecutive sentences totalling nine years and three months. The Court of Appeal found the sentencing judge erred in principle by imposing a consecutive term for threats made during the same transaction as his arrest. Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy, sitting with the Court President and a colleague, quashed the six-year-three-month consecutive sentence. The court imposed a new concurrent sentence of five years, with the final twelve months suspended. The revised total sentence runs concurrently with the criminal damage and weapons convictions.

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