Darragh Meehan has sentence cut for child exploitation

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Darragh Meehan had his sentence for online sexual exploitation and defilement of a 13-year-old girl cut by the Court of Appeal on 13 May 2019, with five years imposed and the final year suspended.

The court reduced the headline sentence from nine years to seven and a half years, finding that the original sentence had placed the offences in the high range rather than the mid-range.

The reduction reflected Meehan’s previous good character and the long period during which he had not come to adverse Garda attention. The suspended year was subject to one year of Probation Service supervision after release.