Supreme Court dismisses David Mahon’s appeal against seven-year manslaughter sentence

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The Supreme Court dismissed David Mahon’s appeal against his seven-year sentence for the manslaughter of Dean Fitzpatrick. The court said it could not take a different view of the sentencing facts from the trial judge and would not alter the sentence.

Mahon was convicted of manslaughter by a jury in 2016 after denying murder. The Court of Appeal had upheld the sentence in 2017. The Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling came on 11 April 2019.