Stephen McKeever gets suspended sentence for false bomb report

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Stephen McKeever received a fully suspended two-and-a-half-year sentence for knowingly making a false bomb report at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 6 March 2017. The call was made from a public phone box on Tyrconnell Road, Inchicore, and led gardaí to search a nearby house.

McKeever pleaded guilty and had 14 previous convictions, including assault, theft and handling stolen property. Judge Melanie Greally said the offence was serious but found he had been motivated by mischief rather than malice; the sentence was suspended on strict conditions, including 12 months’ engagement with the Probation Service.