Martin Wanden's cocaine sentence cut to 23 years

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Martin Wanden had his 30-year sentence for possessing cocaine for sale or supply cut to 23 years by the Court of Appeal on 30 July 2019.

He had been convicted by a jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court and sentenced on 23 July 2008 to 30 years on the charge involving cocaine valued above €13,000.

The appeal court held that sentence was disproportionate, identified 27 years as the appropriate headline sentence and reduced it by four years for mitigation. The judgment records that the convictions arose from an organised cocaine-trafficking operation.