Ian Dent’s violent disorder sentence cut by Court of Appeal

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Ian Dent’s five-year sentence for violent disorder was reduced to three years by the Court of Appeal on 27 July 2015, with the final 12 months suspended.

Dent had been convicted of two violent-disorder counts arising from incidents involving two American tourists in Dublin city centre. The court confirmed the two-year sentence for one count, reduced the five-year sentence for the other, and imposed a good-behaviour condition during the suspended period.