Court of Appeal finds Cameron Curtis’s sentence unduly lenient

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The Court of Appeal found that the sentence imposed on Cameron Curtis for assaults on his partner and false imprisonment was unduly lenient. The court sought an updated probation report before finalising the case.

Curtis pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to eight counts of assault causing harm to Alannah Corrigan and one count of false imprisonment. The offences took place at the Royal Marine Hotel in Dún Laoghaire and the Binary Hub in Dublin 8 between July and August 2022.

On 13 July 2023, Judge Orla Crowe imposed concurrent sentences of two years and six months, with the final 12 months suspended for two years. The sentences were backdated to 19 September 2022. Curtis was ordered to remain under probation supervision for two years after release and engage in recommended offence-focused work, including anger management and domestic violence treatment programmes.

At the appeal hearing on 18 January 2024, Mr Justice George Birmingham said the three-judge court considered the sentence unduly lenient. The proceedings were reported on 18 January 2024.

The judgment described repeated attacks, including Curtis locking Ms Corrigan in a bathroom for 45 minutes and threatening her with a knife. Other offences, including a threat to kill and production of a knife, were taken into consideration on a full-facts basis.

Barry White SC, for Curtis, accepted that the sentence was lenient but disputed that it was unduly lenient. He said Curtis was working with the probation service and accepted the probation report’s concerns about the risk of reoffending.

This case may have concluded differently. The outcome has not yet been confirmed by a public source we could find.