Thomas Mooney wins appeal over indecent assault sentence

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Thomas Mooney had his sentence appeal allowed by the Court of Appeal on 17 December 2015 after convictions for eight indecent assaults. The offences involved a child and took place at the appellant’s home in Gardiner Street, Dublin, between 1 July 1983 and 30 June 1985.

The court found that the sentencing judge had used the wrong maximum sentence and said it would issue a fresh sentence.

This case may have concluded differently. The outcome has not yet been confirmed by a public source we could find.