David Byrne wins appeal over dangerous driving sentence

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David Byrne had his sentence for dangerous driving causing death reduced by the Court of Appeal on 20 December 2019 to four years, with the final year suspended.

The court quashed the five-year sentence imposed after his 2018 conviction and substituted the reduced term, while leaving the disqualification order unchanged. The appeal against conviction had previously been dismissed.