Patrick McAuliffe loses robbery sentence appeal

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Patrick McAuliffe lost his appeal against a five-year sentence, with one year suspended, for robbery at the Court of Appeal on 16 April 2018. The offences occurred at two locations in Cork city on 12 November 2015, involving €300 and €2,300 taken from an 83-year-old man.

The court dismissed the appeal and left the net custodial sentence at four years. McAuliffe had pleaded guilty to theft and robbery and was sentenced at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on 1 November 2016.

The judgment recorded that the victim was severely traumatised and no longer left home unaccompanied. It also noted McAuliffe’s 261 previous convictions, including one previous robbery conviction.