Martin Holden jailed for €500k machinery theft on appeal

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Martin Holden was resentenced to four years and eight months for theft by the Court of Appeal on 5 March 2018.

The theft involved more than €500,000 taken from 17 people through machinery adverts, with cases brought in Kilkenny and Waterford.

Holden had pleaded guilty to theft counts covering a five-year period, while the final year of his earlier sentence had been suspended.