Gerry Connors has jail term cut for false imprisonment

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The Court of Appeal reduced Gerry Connors’s sentence for false imprisonment and robbery to six years, with two-and-a-half years suspended, in a decision reported on 15 June 2023.

The appeal concerned consecutive sentences imposed for falsely imprisoning a home-invasion victim and robbing another man. The Court of Appeal said rehabilitation had received insufficient weight, citing Connors’s exceptional efforts to address drug addiction.