Court of Appeal replaces Susan McGovern’s fully suspended sentence with four-and-a-half years, suspending the final 18 months

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Susan McGovern was resentenced to four-and-a-half years, with the final 18 months suspended, after the Court of Appeal found that suspending her original sentence in full was unduly lenient. The court delivered its judgment on 16 May 2025.

The appeal arose from a robbery conviction relating to an incident at McGovern’s apartment in the early hours of 21 May 2022. She pleaded guilty to robbery on the full facts, and a charge of assault was taken into consideration. The original four-and-a-half-year sentence had been fully suspended.

The court said the custody threshold had been crossed, citing the serious nature of the offence and use of a weapon. It quashed the original sentence and imposed a new four-and-a-half-year term, suspending its final 18 months on the original terms.