Patrick Fitzgerald withdraws appeal against seven-year sentence

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Patrick Fitzgerald withdrew his appeal against a seven-year sentence for facilitating a criminal organisation, after the Court of Appeal reminded him of the full range of its powers.

The Central Criminal Court imposed the sentence in July 2025, to run consecutively to a seven-and-a-half-year term he was already serving for aggravated burglary. The court suspended the final two years of the nine-year sentence on conditions.