Court of Appeal increases Gerard Stokes’s sentence by two years; Samantha Campbell’s sentence stands

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The Court of Appeal increased Gerard Stokes’s sentence by two years after finding an error in how his previous convictions were treated. It dismissed the State’s sentence review against Samantha Campbell and her appeal against the severity of her sentence, leaving her sentence unchanged.

Stokes and Campbell had been convicted of serious assault, false imprisonment, assault causing harm and aggravated burglary arising from events in Dundalk on 5 December 2018. Their earlier appeals against conviction were dismissed in December 2025.