Martin Cully and Eugene Traynor jailed for unlawful seizure

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Martin Cully and Eugene Traynor were sentenced to seven years, partly suspended, for unlawful seizure at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 9 February 2018. The offence occurred at Old Connacht Avenue, Bray, Co Wicklow, on 15 June 2017.

The men had pleaded guilty after forcing a woman from her car and taking it. The final two years of Cully’s sentence and the final two and a half years of Traynor’s were suspended, subject to drug-free conditions and treatment programmes.

Cully was also convicted after pleading guilty to two dangerous-driving charges and was disqualified from driving for life. The court heard that the subsequent chase ended when the car crashed into a pole.