Neil Kelly's suspended sentence upheld for criminal damage

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Neil Kelly’s three-year sentence, suspended for three years, for criminal damage was upheld by the Court of Appeal on 30 May 2016. The offence involved burning a motor vehicle at Scarriff Garda Station after a vehicle had been seized for having no insurance.

The court dismissed the Director of Public Prosecutions’ application to review the sentence, finding sufficient mitigation in Kelly’s guilty plea, compensation, remorse, apology and absence of relevant previous convictions. It described the case as borderline, with Kelly just on the correct side of the threshold for a suspended sentence.