Edward McCarthy given suspended sentence for passport offence

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Edward McCarthy was given a fully suspended 16-month sentence for unlawfully using another person’s passport, in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 15 December 2017. He had used the passport to travel to Italy and was stopped at Dublin Airport when an official noticed that its photograph did not match him.

McCarthy had pleaded guilty to the offence, which occurred at Dublin Airport on 16 May 2016. Judge Martin Nolan suspended the sentence entirely subject to conditions, after accepting that McCarthy’s explanation was probably true.