Robert Day loses IRA membership conviction appeal

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Robert Day lost his appeal against his IRA membership conviction at the Court of Appeal on 28 July 2021.

The conviction concerned membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army on 9 October 2015.

The court found no procedural unfairness in admitting the detective sergeant’s voice identification evidence and said the conviction was not unsafe.

The appeal judges dismissed the challenge but changed the date from which Day’s sentence was backdated, accounting for weeks spent on remand.

The report said the change meant Day would be released in January 2022 rather than February.