Shane Murphy loses appeal over dangerous driving sentence

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Shane Murphy’s appeal against a six-year sentence for dangerous driving causing serious harm was dismissed by the Court of Appeal on 27 November 2018. The sentence, imposed at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on 24 October 2017, included a final year suspended.

Murphy had pleaded guilty to two theft charges and dangerous driving causing serious harm after the Blackrock Road collision in Cork on 8 March 2017. The Court of Appeal said a seven-and-a-half-year headline sentence was appropriate, but his early guilty plea and other mitigating factors meant the overall sentence remained unchanged.